[ProgSoc] Perl Threads

[Martin Gisch <martin@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

Hi,

I've run into a problem writing threads in perl 5.005_02.
I have a script which starts numerous threads, each starting up a system
program. These programs should complete very quickly, but if one of them
hangs, I need to be able to give up on it and kill it's thread.

The timing and things I can work out, but how do you explicitely kill a
thread? In java there's a straightforward 'destroy' method, which doesn't
seem to exist here.

Any ideas?

MG.

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