Re: from pseudofork to threads

[Ctrl-z]

hmm, i think ive got my answer here
so for join(), that should be something like

use threads;
my @kiddies;

foreach(1..10) 
{
     print "$$ starting loop $_";
    
    push @kiddies, threads->new(\&thisWasAnElse);

    print "$$ exiting loop $_";
}

sub thisWasAnElse 
{
    print "\tchild ", threads->tid() " created ok";
    sleep(int(rand(10)));
    print "\tchild", threads->tid() , " done, outta here";
}  

foreach @kiddies { $_->join(); }

can i safely detach() inside the first foreach loop?

well the downloads complete, so lets see what happens...

[pg]

You can detach in the first loop, but as whether it is safe, really depeneds on what the child thread is doing.

When the main thread exit, all child threads will be shut down at unpredictable point, it might seriously hurt what you are doing (, again really depends what it is doing).

As far as Perl is concerned, that doesn't matter, although it will warn you that you exit when some threads running.