pkgsrc changes:
- Adding license definition
- Adding home page
Upstream changes:
1.27 2009/10/12 18:46:27 - Erick Calder <e@arix.com>
- updated the Changes file
1.26 2009/10/01 01:35:02 - Erick Calder <e@arix.com>
- implemented fixes for Cygwin support of PID verification.
Thanks to JDHedden for the patch. see:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50078
- fixed problem with low $COLUMNS values in certain platforms
(ps output wraps) - thanks to JDHedden for the patch. see:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15015
- defaulted values to avoid:
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)
- implemented taint checking patch at:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=6347
thanks to JDHedden for the patch
- Reinstated OO interface to solve Clinton Gormley's need for
maintaining multiple PID files, one for each child process
- Documentation: added example of specifying a directory for the
pidfile, as per enquiry by Milko Krachounov; added a newline for
debug() function as per David Hawthorne so avoid run-on sentences
in output
1.25 2009/06/29 17:41:00 - Mike Canzoneri <mikecanzoneri@gmail.com>
- Added support for threads.
- Added test for thread support.
This Perl module is useful for writers of daemons and other processes
that need to tell whether they are already running, in order to prevent
multiple process instances. The module accomplishes this via *nix-style
pidfiles, which are files that store a process identifier.
