Xwindows? What is that? Some sort of GUI thingy? Didn't I specifically exclude GUIs?

So after all, your complains are not about frameworks in general, but about those that are introduced in CPAN modules? Then should we also exclude the frameworks that are based on underlying C libraries (like glib)? :)

Show me AnyEvent or Event or Coro, or POE or any other Perl event framework running succesfully within a ithreaded perl program. Betcha can't.

I can't. I've never used any of those. I've created my own :) But it does not mean that it is not possible. It just means that I've never tried, neither those frameworks nor ithreaded perl. (But I've done this with C language programs). And of course it does not mean that those frameworks are BAD THING. They are only not suitable for you, but you don't have to use them. So they are forcing nothing on you.

As a side note. Even though I haven't tried it, I do believe that it shouldn't be hard as long as the socketpair (or pipe) command in perl works. Something like 

sub event_handler
{
    if(time_taking_task())
    {
        #socketpair(MY, HIS)
        pipe(MYIN, THROUT);
        pipe(TRHIN, MYOUT);
        check_for_reading(MYIN, \&info_from_thead);
        launch_thread(\&my_thread);
    }

}

sub info_from_tread
{
    sysread(MYIN, $var);
}

sub my_thread
{
 # do some long work
 print THROUT "Give more data\n";
 sysread(THRIN, $data);
}

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in thread Your main event may be another's side-show. by BrowserUk

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