IPC::MMA

DESCRIPTION

  IPC::MMA provides inter-process shared data using Ralf Engelschall's 
  mm library, allowing data to be shared in a relatively convenient way.

COPYRIGHT & TERMS

  Copyright (c) 2008-2009, Craig MacKenna (craig@animalhead.com>
  
  This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRENTY OF ANY KIND, 
  EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE 
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
  PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES 
  RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

PREREQUISITE

  This module requires Ralf Engelschall's mm library.  It was developed 
  with version 1.4.2.  See http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/ for more 
  about mm.

INSTALLATION

  Your computer needs to have the mm library before you can use 
  IPC::MMA.  Many Unix/Linux systems include this library.  If you 
  need to download and install mm, see the web site at the URL in 
  the preceding paragraph.

  To install IPC::MMA, 'cd' into the directory where this file is 
  located and type the following sereies of commands:

       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       sudo make install

  This will install the module into the Perl library.

  See the POD documentation for further details. Once the module
  is installed, you should be able to read the documentation by
  typing the following from the command-line:

       perldoc IPC::MMA


NOTES

    This module requires perl 5.8 or later.
    
    The initial use of the array functions of this module was to track 
    related-file accesses on our Apache web server, and thus optimize 
    use of the HTTP keep-alive feature.   
         
    Craig MacKenna <craig@animalhead.com>
    Feb 13 2009