Are your "very good reasons" good enough to justify using a threading implementation which is experimental and is known not to be thread-safe?

You haven't said what you are doing, but my strong recommendation is to use an existing solution, such as Apache with mod_perl.

As for your problem, the best way I can think of to solve it with threading is to split the child thread into 2. One to write back to the client, one to wait a fixed time, and if the page is still loading send a timeout message and then close the connection. (The backend work still gets done either way.) Hope and pray that you don't have a race between when the sleeper starts writing its timeout message and when the other thread chooses to finish what it is doing...

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: eval with timeout, threaded perl by tilly
in thread eval with timeout, threaded perl by erroneousBollock

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