Hi all,

I compiled perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux-thread using the CPAN module but am having problems with a program I am writing using threads.

There is one subroutine that downloads a webpage and looks for our web address. If a link to another webpage is found in the document the program starts a new thread using the subroutine to look for our address in this new page.

Pseduo code: 

sub getWebPage
{
  my $url = $_[0];
  my $page = get($url);
  ...
  foreach (website link found in $page)
  {
    new Thread \&getWebPage, website;
  }
  ...
}

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but there are two problems
(1) the subroutines called from the newly created threads do not work
and
(2) it seg faults

Can anyone offer some advice?

In reply to Threaded recursive program seg faults by fx

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