IPC::MMA

DESCRIPTION

  IPC::MMA provides inter-process shared data using Ralf Engelschall's
  mm library, allowing data to be shared in a 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 WARRANTY 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.ossp.org/pkg/lib/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.

  The easy way to install IPC::MMA:

    $ perl -MCPAN -e "install IPC::MMA"

  The classic way:

    Choose a directory to use for installing.
    Move/download the distribution file IPC-MMA-n.nn.tar.gz into it
    cd into it
    $ tar -xf IPC-MMA-n.nn.tar.gz

    This will produce a new directory IPC-MMA-n.nn.

    $ cd IPC-MMA-n.nn
    $ perl Makefile.PL
    $ make
    $ make test

    Assuming those steps don't show any problems:

    $ sudo make install  (or just make install if you're superuser)

  Either of the above alternatives should install IPC::MMA 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

  Or if your man system is configured in a compatible way:

    $ man 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.   Watch CPAN for this module
    in the future (its working name is Apache2::CloseKeepAlive).

    Craig MacKenna <craig@animalhead.com>
    Feb 22 2009