Re: Forking and Net::SSH::Perl

[salva]

You can not share an Net::SSH::Perl connection between different processes. It just doesn't work.

You have to open a new connection from every child. If that slows down your script too much, reimplement it using a workers+queue aproach.

And BTW, you can get OpenSSH packed for Solaris from Sunfreeware. Net::OpenSSH does support sharing the SSH connection with child processes.

[eff_i_g]

Thanks salva. What links and/or modules do you recommend for the worker/queue approach? This'll be a first for me; generally my programs do not require forking or (shared) queues.

Parallel::Fork::BossWorker? Thread::Queue? POE?

[salva]

Thread::Queue may be a good choice as sharing data between threads is easier than between processes but you will have to check that Net::SSH::Perl and its dependencies are thread safe.

In any case, I am not an expert in that area, you will probably get better answers if you post a new question.