NAME

Thread::Cleanup - Hook thread destruction.

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

    use Thread::Cleanup;

    use threads;

    Thread::Cleanup::register {
     my $tid = threads->tid();
     warn "Thread $tid finished\n";
    };

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to hook thread destruction without fiddling with the internals of threads.

It acts globally on all the threads that may spawn anywhere in your program, with the exception of the main thread.

FUNCTIONS

register BLOCK

Specify that the BLOCK will have to be called (in void context, without arguments) every time a thread finishes is job. More precisely,

• it will always be called before the join for joined threads ;
• it will be called for detached threads only if they terminate before the main thread, and the hook will then fire at END time ;
• it won't trigger for the destruction of the main thread.

EXPORT

None.

DEPENDENCIES

perl 5.8.

threads 1.07.

XSLoader.

AUTHOR

Vincent Pit, <perl at profvince.com>, http://www.profvince.com.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-thread-cleanup at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Thread-Cleanup. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Thread::Cleanup

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Inspired by a question from TonyC on #p5p.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Vincent Pit, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.