Hi Sharan, Have you considered using asynchronous events instead? You might find it's easier to work out. (See EV, Coro, AnyEvent, etc. in the CPAN)
Otherwise, just.. read the manual on threads? - Anneli 2011/11/6 Sharan Basappa <sharan.basa...@gmail.com> > Hello, > > We are in the process of writing a perl program that can send network > traffic on the native pc network port. > Essentially, the perl program emulates as if different traffic type sources > are sending the traffic data. > For this, our plan is to have a independent thread to emulate each traffic > type (e.g. slow/small traffic, small/fast traffic, large/infrequent traffic > etc.) > So, a mail program would spawn multiple threads and these threads would > send events back to main thread. > The main thread would then send traffic depending on the type of event it > receives. > > Can someone let me know what perl constructs to use for implementing this > program. This is our first time with perl threads. > > Thanks ... >
