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Changes for version 6.55 - 2019-07-19

  • Coro::RWLock woke up only one reader instead of all after a wrlock (analyzed and patch by Maxim Skorobogatov).
  • slightly improved documentation of Coro::RWLock and RWLock testcase.
  • quickly (re)-ported to minix 3.3 before minix crashed again.

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