DESCRIPTION

 IPC::MM provides an interface to Ralf Engelschall's mm library, allowing
 data to be shared between multiple processes in a relatively convenient
 way.

COPYRIGHT & TERMS

 Copyright (C) 1999, Arthur Choung <[email protected]>.
 All rights reserved.

 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
 THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

PREREQUISITES

 This module requires Ralf Engelschall's mm library.
 I have tested it with version 1.0.9.
 http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/

 This module requires perl 5.004 or later.

INSTALLATION

 Before installing this module, you must first install the mm library.
 Please refer to the instructions therein for details.

 To install this module, move into the directory where this file is
 located and type the following:

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test        (optional)
      make install

 This will install the module into the Perl library directory.

 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::MM

EXAMPLE

 The example/ directory contains a few files to serve as a demonstration and
 example of IPC::MM.

 mm_server.pl is a forking server that maintains a shared hash. It accepts
 connections from clients and forks, so that a child process is making the
 changes to the shared hash.

 mm_client.pl is the client for mm_server.pl. It sends a command to the
 server over a specified socket, and prints the results.

 load.sh is a convenience shell script that calls mm_client.pl a bunch o'
 times in order to populate the shared hash maintained by mm_server.pl

NOTES

 This module has not been extensively tested, so it should be considered
 alpha software at best.

 This is probably the first and only release of this module that I will
 make. Anybody is welcome to make improvements to this module and to
 take ownership of it as well.

--
Arthur Choung <[email protected]>
September 13, 1999

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