...an is_finished() (or better named?)...

I was thinking of calling it "exited", in a new package Thread::Exited.

...I realise that using a "threads::" prefix is taboo as all lowercase names are reserved for pragmas, but maybe a "Threads" top level namespace is called for to distinguish between pThreads and iThreads stuff?

There were a lot of discussions about that about 14 months ago on p5p (shortly before the release of 5.8.0). "Threads::xxx" was also taboo because of upper/lowecase insensitive file systems. It was decided to use "Thread" as the top level namespace for this type of stuff. And yes, there is some overlap: Thread::Signal being one of them.

To my knowledge, only Thread::Iterator and Thread::RWLock are for the old 5.005 threads implementation. All other Thread:: modules are for the new ithreads implementation. How do I know? I wrote most of them ;-)

... stretch to try and unify the api..

If there would be people to help on the non-Linux and Windows front (as I don't have access and/or don't have any knowledge), I would be willing to have a go at Thread::Priority.

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Create a separate process with a sub... by liz
in thread Create a separate process with a sub... by Foggy Bottoms

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