From: John Stoffel <john@...>
Date: 2009-02-18T01:29:38+09:00
Subject: Re: slave-1.2.1

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> SYNOPSIS
> 
>    the Slave class forks a process and starts a drb server in the child 
> using
>    any object as the server.  the process is detached so it is not 
> required
>    (nor possible) to wait on the child pid.  a Heartbeat is set up 
> between the
>    parent and child processes so that the child will exit of the parent 
> exits
>    for any reason - preventing orphaned slaves from running 
> indefinitely.  the
>    purpose of Slaves is to be able to easily set up a collection of 
> objects
>    communicating via drb protocols instead of having to use IPC.


Is this being maintained any more?  Should I be using some other module 
for the same functionality in the future?  It's a nice tool to use, but 
I'm going insane trying to debug issues and warnings with the code in my 
Recursive Parallel directory descent tool.

Thanks,
John
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