Hi, your code segfaults on linux too. Your create_thread looks funky to me, (maybe because you create the thread and join it all in one sub ?)

Since Event is an event loop system, I looked at it like I would a Tk or Gtk2 threaded program. In Tk, the thread must be created before any event-loop code( i.e. Tk statements ) are made, so the following seems to work for me. 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use threads;

my $thr = async {  
             for(1..10){
               warn "in thread $_\n";
               sleep 1;
              }
           };

sub create_thread {
    warn "in create_thread() before async()\n";
#    my $thr = async { warn "in thread\n"; };
    warn "in create_thread() before join()\n";
    sleep 2;
    $thr->join;
    warn "in create_thread() before return\n";
    return;
}

use Event;
my $timer = Event->timer( cb => \&create_thread, after => 2);

warn "starting event loop\n";
Event::loop;

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Gtk2 has a thread-safety mechanism, that does allow you to create threads after event-loop code has been written. So you might want to try Gtk2 and it's GLib. However, even some Gtk2 experts say it is still better to create your threads first, before any Gtk2 code is written. See Roll your own Event-loop

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re: Event module and threads/fork segfault on Win32 by zentara
in thread Event module and threads/fork segfault on Win32 by gurbo

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