> Arthur Bergman wrote: > >>perl-5.7.3 is out. It passes all tests with threads enabled flawlessly :) > >>So if you were afraid to upgrade your bleadperl it's good time to do it now. > >> > >> > > > > I sure hope it does, and soon there will be more documentation aswell :) > > That would be great. I've just finished the pthreads book and would love > to make parallels with perl threads API. > > > For mod_perl I think the biggest improvment over 5.6.1 is the fact that > > a) why use _r functions > > Can you please expand on this one? Do you mean that in 5.6.1 one has to > use _r equivalents instead of certain unsafe POSIX functions to achieve > thread-safeness and 5.7.x has this transparent to developers?
I meant, we use _r functions for example CORE::localtime() now uses localtime_r instead of localtime() so it is safe to call it from multiple threads > > b) regexes are threadsafe > > what about things like chdir? > > chdir() cannot be threadsafe ;), there is only one CWD per application. (sadly) Arthur --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
