Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Delaet
Thanks a lot for these insightful replies! Kind Regards -- Thomas

openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas Delaet
Hi, I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). When writing a one-line perl program that has use threads; as contents, I get the following error on execution:

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Stephen Takacs
Thomas Delaet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). You'll have to rebuild perl from source if you want threads. It's a fairly

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/29 10:34, Stephen Takacs wrote: Thomas Delaet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). You'll have to rebuild

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Stephen == Stephen Takacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Perl threads on Unix aren't nearly as useful as on platforms like Stephen Win32 that don't have a native fork(), and even there you have to be Stephen careful because Perl's threads are not at all lightweight. You can Stephen easily