Yes, the threads module comes pre-packaged with ActivePerl, and does not
appear to exist according to PPM, so it's not upgradable without upgrading
ActivePerl, which involves me dealing with company red-tape.

The elusive "is_running.al" shouldn't need to exist outside of the module
itself.  It's all part of Perl\lib\threads.pm and its associated
lib\auto\threads\ library.

Additionally, I can't seem to get any of the constants from threads to
work.  Documentation refers to threads::running and I get a bareword error
when I try to use that.

See documentation at http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html

> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm attempting to use the 'threads' module in ActivePerl 5.8.0 build
> > 805.
> > Everything seems to work until I attempt to shut the process down
> > gracefully.  When I call is_running() the whole thing crashes with the
> > following output (main thread starts the shutdown after 10 seconds):
> >
> > Starting Thread Test
> > This is the main thread (1)
> > This is the child thread (0)
> > This is the main thread (2)
> > This is the main thread (3)
> > This is the child thread (1)
> > This is the main thread (4)
> > This is the main thread (5)
> > This is the child thread (2)
> > This is the main thread (6)
> > This is the main thread (7)
> > This is the child thread (3)
> > This is the main thread (8)
> > This is the main thread (9)
> > This is the child thread (4)
> > This is the main thread (10)
> > Can't locate auto/threads/is_running.al in @INC (@INC contains:
> > C:/Perl/lib C:/P
> > erl/site/lib .) at thread_test.pl line 26
> > A thread exited while 2 other threads were still running.
> >
> > I'm including the module as follows:
> >
> > use threads;
> > use threads::shared;
> > use strict;
> >
> > Any idea why it can't find that function?
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> 
>  Have you checked that file actually exists and it's location? Do you
>  have the latest versions of the modules installed?
> 
> 
> 
>  Lyle
> 


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