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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-04-01 16:17:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-04-01 16:17:04 +0000 |
| commit | 15978375e3ac30958ab56d2e88249ad742eecd30 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e9dd723485f35c3eab3be0f6fe465ba171cc75d | |
| parent | 3fc971374f1b931c73c9d94ee9ba7b82bfa682de (diff) | |
| download | perl-15978375e3ac30958ab56d2e88249ad742eecd30.tar.gz | |
Document the _exit() issue with threads in Linux [perl #17057].
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19118
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod | 6 |
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diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod index dd2071bfb4..d16bc3280f 100644 --- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod +++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ all. This could be construed to be a bug. This is identical to the C function C<_exit()>. It exits the program immediately which means among other things buffered I/O is B<not> flushed. +Note that when using threads and in Linux this is B<not> a good way to +exit a thread because in Linux processes and threads are kind of the +same thing (Note: while this is the situation in early 2003 there are +projects under way to have threads with more POSIXly semantics in Linux). +If you want not to return from a thread, detach the thread. + =item abort This is identical to the C function C<abort()>. It terminates the |