Re: Simple Thread question

I think your problem is the join().  Do not join the thread directly
after creating it.

Create both threads then join().


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:01 -0700, Wong, Danny H. wrote:
> Hi Thread Guru's,
>     I'm just reading up on Perl threads for the first time from
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html
> <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html> .  
> 
> After reading the document and trying out a test script myself. Can
> someone tell me what I'm doing something wrong? It's a simple copy
> function that copies a big file ~50MB, but I was hoping that the copying
> happens in parallel but its not. Any ideas what I need to do? I'll like
> to try the boss-worker and pipeline method. any information would great.
> thanks for your help.
> 
> Here is my code?
> 
> use threads;
> 
> use File::NCopy <file::NCopy>  qw (copy);
> 
> my $FILE='c:\tmp\ADK61292p-Explorer8010hd-ATSC-SA-pKey.zip';
> 
> my $DIR1='C:\tmp\test1';
> 
> my $DIR2='C:\tmp\test2';
> 
> my $THREAD_1 = threads->create(\&COPYTOTESTAREA, ${FILE}, ${DIR1});
> print "Thread 1" . $THREAD_1->join() ." is done\n";
> 
>  
> 
> my $THREAD_2 = threads->create(\&COPYTOTESTAREA, ${FILE}, ${DIR2});
> print "Thread 2" . $THREAD_2->join() ." is done\n";
> 
>  
> 
> sub COPYTOTESTAREA
> 
> {
> 
> my ($SOURCE, $DESTINATION) = @_;
> 
> copy("${SOURCE}", "${DESTINATION}");
> 
> return "I'm done";
> 
> } 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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