#!/usr/bin/perl use threads; use threads::shared; use Thread::Queue; my $q : shared; use constant FINISH => 'finish'; main(); exit 0; sub main { $q = Thread::Queue->new(); my $queuer = threads->create('queuer', 10); my $worker = threads->create('worker'); $queuer->join; $worker->join; print "main thread finished\n"; } sub queuer { my $numItems = shift; my $str = "foo"; while ($numItems-- > 0) { print "queueing $str\n"; $q->enqueue($str); $str++; sleep 1; } $q->enqueue(FINISH); print "queuer finished\n"; } sub worker { DOING_WORK: while (1) { while (my $pending = $q->pending) { my $str = $q->dequeue; print "worker found $pending items, got $str\n"; last DOING_WORK if $str eq FINISH; } sleep 3; } print "worker finished\n"; }