Bug#617323: ITP: libchild-perl -- Perl module providing an object-oriented simple interface to fork()

[Ivan Kohler <ivan-debian@420.am>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ivan Kohler <ivan-debian@420.am>

* Package name    : libchild-perl
  Version         : 0.009
  Upstream Author : Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Child/
* License         : Perl
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Perl module providing an object-oriented simple interface to fork()

Fork is too low level, and difficult to manage. Often people forget to
exit at the end, reap their children, and check exit status. The problem
is the low level functions provided to do these things. Throw in pipes
for IPC and you just have a pile of things nobody wants to think about.

Child is an Object Oriented interface to fork. It provides a clean way
to start a child process, and manage it afterwords. It provides methods
for running, waiting, killing, checking, and even communicating with a
child process.