in reply to Dormus interruptus

I'm not sure how well this addresses the cleanliness issue (correction: it doesn't. i thought a detach() would allow a thread to die "cleanly", but that's not the case), but instead of having the threads wait for 'q', you could simply check for 'q' in main, detach() the threads once it's read, then exit the script.

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Re^2: Dormus interruptus
by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jun 25, 2004 at 12:57 UTC

    I tried this one, but it seemed untidy in that the threads, once detached, would continue, and get killed when the parent exits. I was looking for some way to do this without resorting to letting Perl itself clean up after me.

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