On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:15 PM, David Mertens <dcmertens.p...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. Can you think of any way (apart from hackery) > that I could check that a detached thread with the given tid exists? I do > not need to manipulate it, I just need to know if it exists. I might > consider tracking the existing threads through a shared array, but then I > would have to modify the content of that shared array in an END block, > which seems to be discouraged <<SNIP>> > You could wrap every user-supplied entry point function in your own enclosing, anonymous sub for bookkeeping. This sub is the true entry point passed to threads->create(), and it touches `our %Tids : shared` before and after invoking the user-supplied sub. Thread 0 is still a special case. Liz's Thread::Exit has an example of this approach. -Mike
