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Changes for version 6.49 - 2015-10-17

  • throwing an exception to a thread waiting in Coro::Handle using Coro::EV did not stop the watchers, causing the next call to fail (testcase by Martin Pritchard).
  • bump minimum perl version to 5.10.

Documentation

Modules

the only real threads in perl
truly asynchronous file and directory I/O
integrate threads into AnyEvent
truly asynchronous bdb access
message queues
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
non-blocking I/O with a blocking interface.
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
MakeMaker glue for the XS-level Coro API
reader/write locks
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
counting semaphores
efficient set of counting semaphores
thread signals (binary semaphores)
non-blocking socket-I/O
manage coroutine-specific variables.
first class continuations
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
timers and timeouts, independent of any event loop
various utility functions.
do events the coro-way, with EV
do events the coro-way, with Event

Provides

in Coro/State.pm
in Coro/Handle.pm
in Coro/LWP.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm