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Changes for version 4.741 - 2008-05-30

  • tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
  • switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext stuff seems just too broken.
  • fix a bug in Coro::Select.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
truly asynchronous file and directrory I/O
integrate coroutines into AnyEvent
truly asynchronous bdb access
message queues
various functions that help debugging Coro programs
non-blocking io with a blocking interface.
make LWP non-blocking - as much as possible
MakeMaker glue for the C-level Coro API
reader/write locks
a (slow but coro-aware) replacement for CORE::select
non-binary semaphores
hash of semaphores.
coroutine signals (binary semaphores)
non-blocking socket-io
manage coroutine-specific variables.
create and manage simple coroutines
offer a more fine-grained Storable interface
simple timer package, independent of used event loops
various utility functions.
do events the coro-way
do events the coro-way

Provides

in Coro/AnyEvent.pm
in Coro/Handle.pm
in Coro/LWP.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm
in Coro/Storable.pm