Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas Delaet
Thanks a lot for these insightful replies! Kind Regards -- Thomas

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Stephen" == Stephen Takacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Perl threads on Unix aren't nearly as useful as on platforms like Stephen> Win32 that don't have a native fork(), and even there you have to be Stephen> careful because Perl's threads are not at all "lightweight". You can Step

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/29 10:34, Stephen Takacs wrote: > "Thomas Delaet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not > > supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in > > 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). > > You'll have to

Re: openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Stephen Takacs
"Thomas Delaet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not > supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in > 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). You'll have to rebuild perl from source if you want threads. It's a

openbsd's perl and thread support

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas Delaet
Hi, I want to use perl's threads module. It seems that this is not supported on OpenBSD (4.0 but since the perl version is the same in 4.1 and 4.2, I guess this problem still exists). When writing a one-line perl program that has "use threads;" as contents, I get the following error on execution: