Thanks for all the suggestions, I'd like to quit gracefully if at all possible.

I guess I should have told you that this is a Win32 GUI (for a win32 version of my original version for *nix). So the Win32 response about terminating threads via the API is an interesting one.

However it's not just termination that's the problem. I was kind of hoping for a way of delivering immediate signals to the spider thread from the gui thread (like "Stop" or "Pause" and so on).

The only (kinda dodgy) solution I've come up with is to simply tell LWP (which I'm using to handle HTTP requests etc) to callback every 4kb and check if my flag is set. This seems to work a little better, but I guess this whole issue might count as an irritating problem with the current threads implementation, or I've just structured my code wrong from the beginning :). I don't know if threads under other APIs let you do this sort of thing, i'd be surprised if they didnt...

In reply to Re: Perl threads - telling them urgent stuff by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl threads - telling them urgent stuff by Anonymous Monk

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