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Go the unix way (Score:3, Informative)

by Matts (1087) on 2004.01.26 10:52 (#27749) Journal

Fork and use pipes (or socketpairs) to communicate.

Threads are just too fragile in perl right now (IMHO). If you follow p5p you'll see lots of threads about threads and their relatively unstable status.

Or use forks.pm.

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