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1 package Arc::Starter;
2
3 ################################################################################
4 # #
5 # File: shared/Arc/Starter.pm #
6 # #
7 # Authors: Andre Malo <nd@o3media.de>, 2001-07-16 #
8 # #
9 # Description: start severancer and archiver #
10 # #
11 ################################################################################
12
13 use strict;
14 use vars qw(
15 @EXPORT
16 $VERSION
17 );
18
19 ################################################################################
20 #
21 # Version check
22 #
23 $VERSION = do { my @r =(q$Revision$ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
24
25 ################################################################################
26 #
27 # Export
28 #
29 use base qw(Exporter);
30 @EXPORT = qw(start_severance);
31
32 ### win32_start () #############################################################
33 #
34 # win32 starter
35 #
36 # Params: ~none~
37 #
38 # Return: ~none~
39 #
40 sub win32_start ($) {
41 my $sev = shift;
42 my $p;
43 my $x = $^X;
44
45 require Win32::Process; Win32::Process -> import ('NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS', 'DETACHED_PROCESS');
46 require Win32;
47
48 Win32::Process::Create(
49 $p,
50 $x,
51 "perl $sev",
52 0,
53 NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | DETACHED_PROCESS,
54 "."
55 ) or warn 'could not execute severancer: '.Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastError());
56 }
57
58 ### posix_start () #############################################################
59 #
60 # POSIX starter
61 #
62 # Params: ~none~
63 #
64 # Return: ~none~
65 #
66 sub posix_start ($) {
67 my $sev = shift;
68 my $x = $^X;
69
70 require POSIX;
71
72 my $pid = fork;
73 unless ($pid) {
74 unless (defined $pid) {
75 warn "Could not fork severance process: $!";
76 }
77 else {
78 unless (POSIX::setsid()) {
79 warn "Could not create new severancer session: $!";
80 } else {
81 exec $x, $sev;
82 }
83 warn "could not execute severancer: $!"
84 }
85 }
86 }
87
88 ### start_severance () #########################################################
89 #
90 # start the severance script as a new process (group)
91 #
92 # Params: $app - /path/to/fo_sev.pl
93 #
94 # Return: ~none~
95 #
96 sub start_severance ($) {
97 my $app = shift;
98 my $OS;
99
100 unless ($OS = $^O) {
101 require Config;
102 $OS = $Config::Config{osname};
103 }
104
105 if ($OS =~ /win32/i) {
106 win32_start ($app);
107 }
108 else {
109 posix_start ($app);
110 }
111
112 return;
113 }
114
115 # keep 'require' happy
116 1;
117
118 #
119 #
120 ### end of Arc::Starter ########################################################

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