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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/Thread/Thread.pm')
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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/Thread/Thread.pm b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/Thread/Thread.pm index 00cba8af673..23f9fe51384 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/Thread/Thread.pm +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/Thread/Thread.pm @@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ $VERSION = "1.0"; Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change) +=head1 CAVEAT + +The Thread extension requires Perl to be built in a particular way to +enable the older 5.005 threading model. Just to confuse matters, there +is an alternate threading model known as "ithreads" that does NOT +support this extension. If you are using a binary distribution such +as ActivePerl that is built with ithreads support, this extension CANNOT +be used. + =head1 SYNOPSIS use Thread; @@ -130,7 +139,7 @@ signal is discarded. =item cond_broadcast VARIABLE -The C<cond_broadcast> function works similarly to C<cond_wait>. +The C<cond_broadcast> function works similarly to C<cond_signal>. C<cond_broadcast>, though, will unblock B<all> the threads that are blocked in a C<cond_wait> on the locked variable, rather than only one. |