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IPC-Semaphore-Concurrency version 0.04
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This module allows you to limit concurrency of specific portions of your
code. It can be used to limit resource usage or to give exclusive access to
specific resources.

This module is similar in functionality to IPC::Concurrency with the main
differences being that is uses SysV Semaphores, and allow queuing up
processes while others hold the semaphore. There are other differences which
gives more flexibility in some cases.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  IPC::SysV
  IPC::Semaphore

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009-2014 by Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.