Re: Thread Exiting

On 18/07/06, Jerry D. Hedden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Default behavior is for exit() in main or a thread to exit
> the app.

Which is backwards-compatible, then good.

> There is a thread-exit-only class method:  threads->exit()
>
>     If called from main, it acts like 'exit(0)', complete
>     with warning message as per above, if applicable.

Can't you call threads->exit($status) ?

> The default behavior for exit() in threads can be changed in
> several ways:
>     Global change
>         use threads 'exit' => 'threads_only';

I assume that's "thread_only".

>         # or
>         use threads 'exit' => 'threads';

>     After thread creation
>         threads->set_thread_exit_only();   # Inside a thread
>         # or
>         $thr->set_thread_exit_only();

Er, set_thread_only_exit($boolean) might be better ?