Tom Pollard wrote:
> The use of an alarm to timeout an eval{} block definitely works. I don't
> know why it works, but it does. I do get the impression that alarms are
> handled in some special way by perl, because this idiom works on all
> platforms we've tried it on (Linux, AIX, IRIX, MacOSX,
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
> >>win32 doesn't have signals and any that are implemented don't actually
> >>interrupt the receiving process. I believe they just use simple message
> >>passing to fake it - so your mileage may vary.
> >
> > My point was precisely that "they" have arra
You sure this works under windows?
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> Subject: Re: [threads] Forced terminatio
Tom Pollard wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
>
>>win32 doesn't have signals and any that are implemented don't actually
>>interrupt the receiving process. I believe they just use simple message
>>passing to fake it - so your mileage may vary.
>
>
> My point was precisely tha
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
> win32 doesn't have signals and any that are implemented don't actually
> interrupt the receiving process. I believe they just use simple message
> passing to fake it - so your mileage may vary.
My point was precisely that "they" have arranged that this
Tom Pollard wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, ajpeck wrote:
>
>>Is there a way to forcibly terminate a thread after a specified time
>>regardless if the thread is finished executing.
>
>
> The standard eval{}-timeout technique apparently works well for threads.
> That is, wrap the code that might
Foo Ji-Haw wrote:
> I guess Perl's threading is not quite complete as of 5.8.x. But with forking
> it is possible to kill a child process?
You can certainly do it using Win32::Process, but you may have more
trouble passing info to/from - I've never used the simulated fork on
Win32.
--
,-/-
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, ajpeck wrote:
> Is there a way to forcibly terminate a thread after a specified time
> regardless if the thread is finished executing.
The standard eval{}-timeout technique apparently works well for threads.
That is, wrap the code that might hang for 5 min in an eval{} block
"
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [threads] Forced termination
ajpeck wrote:
Is there a way to forcibly terminate a thread after a specified time
regardless if the thread is finished executing. I have threads which
call certain network functions that have very long hard c
ajpeck wrote:
> I am now trying a process and threads hybrid to get around the problem.
>
> We can hope that for Perl 6 a function can be added to threads for
> immediate termination of child threads and freeing resources immediately
> from the parent thread.
You may not be able to free all of
I am now trying a process and threads hybrid to get around the problem.
We can hope that for Perl 6 a function can be added to threads for
immediate termination of child threads and freeing resources immediately
from the parent thread.
Alun
$Bill Luebkert wrote:
ajpeck wrote:
Is there
ajpeck wrote:
> Is there a way to forcibly terminate a thread after a specified time
> regardless if the thread is finished executing. I have threads which
> call certain network functions that have very long hard coded timeouts,
> such as 5 mins. A no response of 5 secs is sufficient for me to
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> Subject: Re: [threads] Forced termination
>
>
> The problem is that I need to reclaim the memory resource of
> the thread
> that is not needed no more, so I can start off a new thread.
> Thus detach
> is not suitable in this case.
>
> Alun
The problem is that I need to reclaim the memory resource of the thread
that is not needed no more, so I can start off a new thread. Thus detach
is not suitable in this case.
Alun
John Serink wrote:
Just detach them and forget about them.
other than that, I don't think there's a way to termi
Just detach them and forget about them.
other than that, I don't think there's a way to terminate them.
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