Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Procord 0.1.0: Delegate tasks to other processes

[Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>]

Indeed. In fact I made a feature request about this:

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6146

So, just waiting for OCaml 4.02 will solve the issue.

If waiting is not an option I can of course add this in Procord. I
should at least provide a way to get the PID / Process Handle so that
one can call TerminateProcess using his own binding.

While we are discussing the differences between Windows and Linux, there
is actually another one: the Windows server does not fork and, thus,
only accepts one task at a time. This could be solved by having the
server execute himself to run the tasks. But before actually
implementing this I prefer to wait and see whether there is a real need
(Windows servers are less common).

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou

Le 10/10/2013 14:06, Arnaud Spiwack a écrit :
> I see you are using Unix.kill to kill processes. But I was under the
> impression that it didn't work properly on Windows. Am I mistaken?
> 
> 
> On 9 October 2013 11:09, Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr
> <mailto:romain.bardou@inria.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     I am happy to announce the first release of Procord, a portable library
>     to delegate tasks to other processes.
> 
>     Obtain it with opam:
> 
>       opam install procord
> 
>     Or, download the tarball:
> 
>       https://github.com/cryptosense/procord/archive/v0.1.0.tar.gz
> 
>     View a minimal, commented example:
> 
>       https://github.com/cryptosense/procord/blob/master/examples/minimal.ml
> 
>     You can browse the API at:
> 
>       http://cryptosense.github.io/procord/api/index.html
> 
>     Procord can spawn local worker processes or communicate using sockets to
>     a remote worker server. Workers will receive an input, execute a
>     function on this input, and send back the result. Meanwhile, the main
>     program can continue to run while waiting for the results.
> 
>     Not relying on threads, Procord is robust - a segmentation fault in the
>     worker will not kill the main program. Not relying on fork, Procord is
>     portable - it has been tested on Linux and Windows.
> 
>     Procord provides an easy way to have the same executable act as a worker
>     - local or remote - or as the main program. The actual behavior can be
>     specified on the command-line. The default is to run as the main
>     program, which delegates tasks by running itself.
> 
>     I will present Procord at the OUPS meeting of this evening.
> 
>     --
>     Romain Bardou
> 
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