After starting a thread, execution of the parent process simply continues. An example:

use threads;
use threads::shared;

my $run : shared = 1;

my $thread = threads->new( sub {
    while ($run) {
        print "Hi!\n";
        sleep 1;
    }
} );

print "Waiting 5 seconds while the thread runs\n";
sleep 5;

print "Shutting down\n";
$run = 0;
$thread->join;
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This should display (possibly in a different order:

Hi!
Waiting 5 seconds while the thread runs
Hi!
Hi!
Hi!
Hi!
Shutting down

If it doesn't, there is a problem with threads in your environment.

Liz

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