16 our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
18 our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( all => [qw()]);
20 our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } );
25 our $VERSION = '0.05';
29 return 1 if($_[0]->tid() == $_[1]->tid());
33 $threads::threads = 1;
35 bootstrap threads $VERSION;
37 # Preloaded methods go here.
44 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads from perl
51 print "Thread started\n";
54 my $thread = threads->new("start_thread","argument");
56 $thread->new(sub { print "I am a thread"},"argument");
62 $thread = threads->self();
71 Perl 5.6 introduced something called interpreter threads. Interpreter
72 threads are different from 5005 threads by creating a new perl
73 interpreter per thread and not sharing any data or state between threads.
75 Prior to perl 5.8 this has only been available to people embedding perl and
76 for emulating fork() on windows.
78 The threads API is loosly based on the old Thread.pm API. It is very important
79 to note that variables are not shared between threads, all variables are per
80 default thread local. To use shared variables one must use threads::shared.
82 It is also important to note that you preferebly enable threads by doing
83 C<use threads> as early as possible and it is not possible to enable threading
88 =item new, function, LIST
90 This will create a new thread with the entry point function and give
91 it LIST as parameters. It will return the corresponding threads
94 create is an alias to new
98 This will wait for the corresponding thread to join. When it finishes join will return the return values of the root function.
99 If a thread has been detached, join will return without wait.
101 =item $thread->detach
103 Will throw away the return value from the thread and make non joinable
107 This will return the object for the current thread.
111 This will return the id of the thread.
112 threads->self->tid() is a quick way to get current thread id
121 =item Fix so the return value is returned when you join
125 =item Fix memory leaks!
129 =head1 AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
131 Arthur Bergman E<lt>arthur at contiller.seE<gt>
133 threads is released under the same license as Perl
137 Richard Soderberg E<lt>rs at crystalflame.netE<gt>
138 Helping me out tons, trying to find reasons for races and other weird bugs!
140 Simon Cozens E<lt>simon at brecon.co.ukE<gt>
141 Being there to answer zillions of annoying questions
143 Rocco Caputo E<lt>troc at netrus.netE<gt>
145 Vipul Ved Prakash E<lt>mail at vipul.netE<gt>
146 Helping with debugging.
148 please join perl-ithreads@perl.org for more information
154 =item creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32
156 =item PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be.
163 L<perl>, L<threads::shared>, L<perlcall>, L<perlembed>, L<perlguts>