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 -- Michael J. Pomraning [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pilcrow.madison.wi.us
