I've installed Perl 5.8, and had it compile with iThread support. However I
can't figure out how to use it, despite reading the perldoc a few dozen
times, it doesn't make sense to me. What I want to do, is to have 2 threads,
1 thread will contain my program which mustn't be disturbed, and the other
thread will execute a sub to check over and over again to see if certain
items have timed out.
$thread = threads->create("service"); # this is the main program. "service"
starts it up.
$newthr = threads->create("checktimeout"); # this starts the timeout sub
sub checktimeout {
while (1) { # i can't think of another way to loop the sub..
# here i check to see if an item has timed out, if so, expire it.
# also here, the process needs to pause for 5 seconds and then check
again
}
}
now the service sub executes fine, but checktimeout doesn't even execute
(i've checked this in debug mode). any clues as to what's going wrong and
why?
Dan
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