Note that the above is not silent if the die has a chance to execute.

Yes, but it turns out that is exactly what he was doing. At least in his experiments:

There are other ways. For example, there were a bunch of versions of perl (most of the 5.8.x series from memory) that (on Windows) silently exited if they ran "Out of memory!" never producing that error message. I had that happen a lot.

Also, hard to demo since dave-the-m changed the regex engine from recursive to iterative, but previously running a pathological regex in a thread could run it out of C-stack and it would silently disappear. There aren't many things left in perl that consume stack any more, but I wouldn't mind betting that if we could find one, that the thread would still terminate silently.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

In reply to Re^4: Why do my threads sometimes die silenty? by BrowserUk
in thread Why do my threads sometimes die silenty? by alain_desilets

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