Change 19118 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/04/01 16:17:04
Document the _exit() issue with threads in Linux [perl #17057].
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod#33 edit
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==== //depot/perl/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod#33 (text) ====
Index: perl/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
--- perl/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod#32~18569~ Wed Jan 22 13:00:59 2003
+++ perl/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod Tue Apr 1 08:17:04 2003
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@
This is identical to the C function C<_exit()>. It exits the program
immediately which means among other things buffered I/O is B<not> flushed.
+Note that when using threads and in Linux this is B<not> a good way to
+exit a thread because in Linux processes and threads are kind of the
+same thing (Note: while this is the situation in early 2003 there are
+projects under way to have threads with more POSIXly semantics in Linux).
+If you want not to return from a thread, detach the thread.
+
=item abort
This is identical to the C function C<abort()>. It terminates the
End of Patch.
