Re: What is a thread?

2002-09-18 Thread Dharmender Rai
A thread is a flow of control through a program with a single execution point.Threads are one of the pieces of a process. Every process has at least one thread and, up until now, every process running Perl had only one thread. With 5.005, though, one can create extra threads. In one implementa

What is a thread?

2002-09-18 Thread Angerstein
Hi, a simple question: if my program starts a thread, does it wait until the thread finishes or do it run futher? Other harder question: if I fill an array or other complex datastructure is it a pain in the neck to give it over to the main-prog, (like it is with processes...) or is it easy? >