Re: stopping a thread

wouldn't it be nice:

$thread->DESTROY

To stop a thread from outside the thread.

best,
tom


On Mon, 3 May 2004, Mike Pomraning wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 2004, Thomas S Brettin wrote:
> 
> > Is there an easy way to stop a thread from outside the thread? I'ld like
> > to do something simple like:
> >
> > my $thread = threads->new($code_ref);
> > ...
> > $thread->stop();
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> 
> There's no notion of 'thread cancellation' in perl.  If you can run
> Thread::Signal (see that module's CAVEATS), then Thread::Stop offers a kill()
> method which behaves as you expect.
> 
> -Mike
> 

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