Revision history for Perl extension threads. 1.58 Wed Jan 24 13:15:34 EST 2007 - Fix race conditions on thread destruction (Dave Mitchell) - Ignore thread return value(s) in void context - Check for missing args for 'use threads' options - Check that stack size argument is numeric 1.57 Wed Dec 20 13:10:26 EST 2006 - Fixes courtesy of Michael J. Pomraning Eliminates self joins. Eliminates multiple, simultaneous joins on a thread. Protects thread->state variable with mutexes. Checks that OS join call is successful. 1.56 Fri Dec 15 12:18:47 EST 2006 - More fixes to test suite 1.55 Fri Dec 15 11:24:46 EST 2006 - Fixes to test suite 1.54 Thu Dec 14 14:12:30 EST 2006 - Added ->error() method 1.53 Mon Nov 27 12:08:27 EST 2006 - Fix for a thread cloning bug - Fixes to test suite 1.52 Tue Nov 21 11:04:03 EST 2006 - Fix compiler warnings 1.51 Wed Nov 15 14:25:30 EST 2006 - Thread destruction fix 1.49 Fri Nov 3 08:33:28 EST 2006 - Fix a warning message 1.48 Thu Nov 2 12:33:22 EST 2006 - Fix for segfault during thread destruction 1.47 Mon Oct 30 16:02:53 EST 2006 - Fix t/thread.t crash under Win32 - Test multiple embedded Perl support 1.46 Fri Oct 27 19:51:48 EST 2006 - Support multiple embedded Perls - Document workaround for non-threadsafe modules 1.45 Wed Oct 25 14:22:23 EDT 2006 - Makefile.PL changes for CORE - Updated POD tests 1.44 Wed Oct 11 08:55:50 EDT 2006 - Complain about bad import options - Added example threads script 1.43 Fri Oct 6 15:12:07 EDT 2006 - Stringify threads objects - Removed 'typemap' file 1.42 Mon Sep 18 11:17:13 EDT 2006 - Fixes to tests - Move $threads::threads outside of BEGIN block 1.41 Fri Sep 8 19:28:41 EST 2006 - Race condition fixes 1.39 Tue Aug 30 12:00:00 EDT 2006 - Signals are safe in 5.8.0 - Upgraded ppport.h to Devel::PPPort 3.10 1.38 Tue Aug 1 11:48:56 EDT 2006 - Fixes to tests 1.37 Fri Jul 21 10:51:36 EDT 2006 - Revert 'exit' behavior with override 1.36 Mon Jul 10 15:58:13 EDT 2006 - Ignore signals sent to terminated threads 1.35 Mon Jul 10 09:44:47 EDT 2006 - Upgraded ppport.h to Devel::PPPort 3.09 - Fix for Borland compiler 1.34 Thu Jul 6 10:29:37 EDT 2006 - Added ->is_running, ->is_detached, ->is_joinable, ->wantarray - Enhanced ->list to return running or joinable threads 1.33 Mon Jul 3 10:11:20 EDT 2006 - 'exit' inside a thread silently terminates thread only - Added 'threads->exit()' (just calls CORE::exit(0)) - Handle 'die/exit' in thread warn handlers if thread terminates with a warning - Give exact accounting of unjoined threads on program termination - Fix spurious 'failures' from t/blocks.t - Set correct path to threads module in tests that use test.pl 1.32 Mon Jun 5 09:27:53 EDT 2006 - Fix for HP-UX 10.20 pthread_attr_getstacksize usage - Check for threads::shared in tests 1.31 Fri May 19 16:06:42 EDT 2006 - Explicit thread context 1.29 Thu May 18 16:09:28 EDT 2006 - Fix warning/core dump from ->create('foo') in BEGIN block 1.28 Wed May 17 14:33:13 EDT 2006 - Fix for build failure under older Perl versions - Skip signalling tests if using unsafe signals 1.27 Thu May 11 11:52:21 EDT 2006 - Added $thr->kill() method for thread signalling - Check for 'C' compiler when building module 1.26 Mon May 8 13:18:29 EDT 2006 - Fix for Win32 build WRT page size 1.25 Thu May 4 12:34:02 EDT 2006 - Final sync with blead - Lock counters in tests 1.24 Mon Apr 24 10:29:11 EDT 2006 - assert() that thread 0 is never destructed - Determinancy in free.t 1.23 Thu Apr 13 16:57:00 EDT 2006 - BUG (RE)FIX: Properly free thread's Perl interpreter - It's an error to detach a thread twice - More XS code cleanups 1.22 Fri Apr 7 21:35:06 EDT 2006 - Documented maximum stack size error 1.21 Tue Apr 4 13:57:23 EDT 2006 - Corrected ->_handle() to return a pointer - Overload != 1.19 Sat Mar 25 18:46:02 EST 2006 - Use 'DEFINE' instead of 'CCFLAGS' in Makefile.PL 1.18 Fri Mar 24 14:21:36 EST 2006 - ->equal returns 0 on false for backwards compatibility - Changed UVs to IVs in XS code (except for TID) - Use ->create in tests 1.17 Thu Mar 23 10:31:20 EST 2006 - Restoration of 'core' build parameters 1.15 Wed Mar 22 13:46:51 EST 2006 - BUG FIX: Replaced SvPV_nolen_const macro - Disabled closure return test again and added note in POD 1.14 Tue Mar 21 08:40:16 EST 2006 - BUG FIX: Corrected UV formatting string 1.13 Mon Mar 20 15:09:42 EST 2006 - BUG FIX: Round stack sizes to multiple of page size - Use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN if available 1.12 Sun Mar 19 17:34:49 EST 2006 - Implemented $thr1->equal($thr2) in XS - Use $ENV{PERL_CORE} in tests 1.11 Fri Mar 17 13:24:35 EST 2006 - BUG FIX: Properly free thread's Perl interpreter - Removed BUGS POD item regarding returning objects from threads - Enabled closure return test in t/problems.t - Handle deprecation of :unique in tests - XS code cleanup - Better POD coverage 1.09 Mon Mar 13 14:14:37 EST 2006 - Initial (re-)release to CPAN - 64-bit TIDs - API for thread stack size (courtesy of Dean Arnold) - Made threads->list() context sensitive - Implemented threads->object($tid) in XS - Added $thr->_handle() method Ancient history: 0.03 Mon Jul 2 12:00:50 CEST 2001 Fixed bug with threads->self() in main thread, thanks Hackworth! 0.02 Sat Jun 30 09:41:00 GMT 2001 Fixed bug in threads->self() reported by Hackworth 0.01 Tue Apr 24 19:04:12 2001 Cleaned up documentation