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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-18 19:13:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-18 19:13:53 +0000 |
| commit | b03ad8f690c4dcc613a1ec77d747e2d429945b16 (patch) | |
| tree | db68ba166f01a5e60182c6efb28af87dea8bdcbb /pod | |
| parent | a44e0ddd16baf7a4d0ee3570e7e93cd59c783c1a (diff) | |
| download | perl-b03ad8f690c4dcc613a1ec77d747e2d429945b16.tar.gz | |
Warn about mixing signals and threads;
mention the comp.programming.threads FAQ.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17632
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diff --git a/pod/perlthrtut.pod b/pod/perlthrtut.pod index 25a4edfbec..cafcbb21a6 100644 --- a/pod/perlthrtut.pod +++ b/pod/perlthrtut.pod @@ -998,6 +998,11 @@ until the feeling passes-- but in case you really want to know, the semantics is that fork() duplicates all the threads. (In UNIX, at least, other platforms will do something different.) +Similarly, mixing signals and threads should not be attempted. +Implementations are platform-dependent, and even the POSIX +semantics may not be what you expect (and Perl doesn't even +give you the full POSIX API). + =head1 Thread-Safety of System Libraries Whether various library calls are thread-safe is outside the control @@ -1066,6 +1071,9 @@ Silberschatz, Abraham, and Peter B. Galvin. Operating System Concepts, Arnold, Ken and James Gosling. The Java Programming Language, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-31006-6. +comp.programming.threads FAQ, +L<http://www.serpentine.com/~bos/threads-faq/> + Le Sergent, T. and B. Berthomieu. "Incremental MultiThreaded Garbage Collection on Virtually Shared Memory Architectures" in Memory Management: Proc. of the International Workshop IWMM 92, St. Malo, |