Send signal to main thread

menth0l has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can i send signal from child thread to main thread? I need to send signal to all threads including main. This doesn't work:

$_->kill('HUP') foreach threads->list;
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I'm using ActiveState perl on Windows platform.

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Re: Send signal to main thread by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 01, 2011 at 09:21 UTC
Signals and threads don't mix well. Neither on Windows nor on Unix / POSIX threads. Don't do it. Update: cdarke points out that I'm mistaking the signals that threads implements for inter-thread signaling with the OS signals. As you are using the `threads` signals, ignore my comment.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Send signal to main thread by onelesd (Pilgrim) on Sep 02, 2011 at 05:43 UTC
When using `threads`, catching a Ctrl-C to close up your program gracefully is a nightmare. While `threads` signals may work fine, catching signals from the terminal, such as Ctrl-C, still poses a difficult problem with no good solution (that I've encountered). There is no way to know which thread is going to receive the signal because the terminal sends the signal to the process group, not to a thread.	[reply] [d/l] [select]