Re: How to check if a thread is alive?

Hi there,

After I installed load & Exit packages, I started to install
Thread::Running. But "nmake test" failed, do you guys have any clue? Thank
you very much.

J.

The perl I am using:

F:\LWP>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef


Error output:

C:\TEMP\Thread-Running-0.04>"c:\program files\Microsoft Visual
studio\VC98\Bin\nmake.exe" test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        F:\ActivePerl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t\Running01.t t\
Running02.t t\Running03.t
t\Running01....ok 3/19Free to wrong pool 15d32f8 not 1b0abd0 at (eval 18)
line 16.
t\Running01....dubious
        Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
DIED. FAILED tests 4-19
        Failed 16/19 tests, 15.79% okay
t\Running02....ok 2/18Free to wrong pool 15d32f8 not 1b0ab58 at (eval 18)
line 16.
t\Running02....dubious
        Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
DIED. FAILED tests 3-18
        Failed 16/18 tests, 11.11% okay
t\Running03....ok 1/17Free to wrong pool 15d32f8 not 1aeb1d8 at (eval 17)
line 16.
t\Running03....dubious
        Test returned status 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-17
        Failed 16/17 tests, 5.88% okay
Failed Test   Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
t\Running01.t    5  1280    19   16  84.21%  4-19
t\Running02.t    5  1280    18   16  88.89%  3-18
t\Running03.t    4  1024    17   16  94.12%  2-17
Failed 3/3 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 48/54 subtests failed, 11.11% okay.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'F:\ActivePerl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
"Mike Pomraning" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, EastInspection USA wrote:
>
> > It seems to me it is a bug in ithread. If a thread dies, then
> > ithread->list() should not list it as an alive thread.
>
> This is a documentation ambiguity, not a bug in ithreads.  :-)  Some of
the
> threads documentation is drawn from previous implementations, and is a
little
> dusty here and there.  The L<threads> documentation states more precisely
that
>
>   threads->list();
>       This will return a list of all non joined, non detached threads.
>   [http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/threads.html]
>
> A non-detached thread that has finished its entry point routine, perhaps
by
> die()ing, is still joinable.  This is somewhat analogous to wait()ing for
a
> terminated process (at least on POSIXy systems).
>
> So, threads->list lists joinable threads; take a look at Liz's
Thread::Running
> to find out whether your threads are still in their entry point routines.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
> --
> Michael J. Pomraning
> [email protected]
> http://pilcrow.madison.wi.us