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Changes for version 1.5 - 2005-11-29

  • use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
  • fix Coro::Select 'select'.
  • strict'ify some modules.
  • libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
  • use XSLoader in selected modules.
  • remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
message queues
continuations in perl
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
reader/write locks
non-binary semaphores
hash of semaphores.
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
manage coroutine-specific variables.
create and manage simple coroutines
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
do events the coro-way
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
a (slow but event-aware) replacement for CORE::select
non-blocking socket-io
various utility functions.

Provides

in Event/Handle.pm
in Event/Event.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm