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Can this be true? "There's no notion of 'thread cancellation' in perl" Tom Brettin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:29:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pomraning <mjp@pilcrow.madison.wi.us> To: Thomas S Brettin <brettin@lanl.gov> Cc: perl-ithreads@perl.org Subject: Re: stopping a thread On Sun, 2 May 2004, Thomas S Brettin wrote: > Is there an easy way to stop a thread from outside the thread? I'ld like > to do something simple like: > > my $thread = threads->new($code_ref); > ... > $thread->stop(); > > Thanks for any help. There's no notion of 'thread cancellation' in perl. If you can run Thread::Signal (see that module's CAVEATS), then Thread::Stop offers a kill() method which behaves as you expect. -Mike -- Michael J. Pomraning mjp@pilcrow.madison.wi.us http://pilcrow.madison.wi.usThread Next