Revision history for Perl extension Parallel::ForkManager. 1.19 2016-06-28 [ DOCUMENTATION ] - Typo fixes. (GH#10) - Add short discussion on security about the information passing via files between master/children processes. - Document the problem between PerlIO::fzip and fork(). (GH#11) [ ENHANCEMENTS ] - New way to spawn workers via 'start_child'. [ STATISTICS ] - code churn: 4 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) 1.18 2016-03-29 [ BUG FIXES ] - Storage file between child and parent could have the wrong name, because $$ was used instead of parent_pid. (GH#9, reported by Lucien Coffe) [ STATISTICS ] - code churn: 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 1.17 2015-11-28 - Up Test::More's dependency version to v0.94 (because of 'subtest'). (GH#8, mauke) [ STATISTICS ] - code churn: 3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-) 1.16 2015-10-08 - wait_one_child wasn't waiting at all. (RT#107634, Slaven Rezic, Yanick) [ STATISTICS ] - code churn: 10 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 461 deletions(-) 1.15 2015-07-08 - test's watchdog actually exit if it's being hit. (RT#105747, Zefram) - condition to catch children reaped by external forces improved. (RT#105748, Zefram + Yanick) 1.14 2015-05-17 - Add 'reap_finished_children', 'is_child' and 'is_parent'. (GH#6, Nine bit) 1.13 2015-05-11 - Use 'select' instead of sleep in _waitpid_blocking. (GH#5) 1.12 2015-02-23 - Allow to use true blocking calls. (RT#102305) 1.11 2015-01-30 - Promote to non-dev release. 1.10_2 2015-01-25 - Put the problematic test as a TODO. 1.10_1 2015-01-22 - Increase timeouts in test to address FreeBSD failures. 1.09 2015-01-08 - Test was failing on Windows platforms. (Yanick Champoux) 1.08 2015-01-07 - New helper functions 'max_procs', 'running_procs' and 'wait_for_available_procs'. GH#4 (Yanick Champoux) - Play nicer with calls to 'waitpid' done outside of P::FM. GH#3 (Yanick Champoux) 1.07 2014-11-10 - Increase minimal Test::Simple requirement RT #92801 - Implement better style and practices in the examples in the POD. (Shlomi Fish) 1.06 2013-12-24 - Remove temporary directory only if it was an automatically generated one. Now fixed. (Shoichi Kaji) RT #89590 (johantheolive) 1.05 2013-09-18 - Remove temporary directory only if it was an automatically generated one. (reported by Manuel Jeckelmann) 1.04 2013-09-03 - Require File::Path 2.0 to support Perl 5.8 (Ian Burrell) - fix some typos #88358 (David Steinbrunner) - documentation fixes #84337 (Damyan Ivanov) 1.03 2013-03-06 - Use second parameter from new() that was unused in the last few released. (Michael Gang) 1.02 2012-12-24 - Fix test for Windows. 1.01 2012-12-23 - Disable utf8 test on Windows where it is a perl bug. - Change version number scheme to two parts. 1.0.0 2012-12-23 - Fixing RT 68298 - Insecure /tmp file handling using File::Temp::tempdir by John Lightsey (LIGHTSEY) - Adding another callback example and several tests Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) 0.7 2001-04-04 - callback code tested, exit status return (Chuck, dLux) - added parallel_get.pl, a parallel webget example (dLux) - added callbacks.pl, a callback example (Chuck, dLux) - documentation updtes (Chuck, dLux) 0.6 2000-11-30 - documentation tweak fixes by Noah Robin - warning elimination fixes 0.5 2000-10-18 - original version; created by h2xs 1.19 0.7.9 2010-11-01 - Exclude the example scripts from getting installed. (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=62506) 0.7.8 2010-08-25 - Make $VERSION compatible with the most perl versions possible (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=62180) 0.7.7 2010-09-28 - Small distribution fixes 0.7.6 2010-08-15 - Added datastructure retrieval (Ken Clarke) - Using CORE::exit instead of exit (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39003) 0.7.5 2002-12-25 - Documentation fixes - Fix bug if you specify max_procs = 0 0.7.4 2002-07-04 - on_wait callback now runs from the wait_all_children method - run_on_wait can run a task periodically, not only once. 0.7.3 2001-08-24 - minor bugfix on calling the "on_finish" callback 0.7.2 2001-05-14 - win32 port - fix for the broken wait_one_child 0.7.1 2001-04-26 - various semantical and grammar fixes in the documentation - on_finish now get the exit signal also - on_start now get the process-identification also - described limitations in the doc