Changes for version 4.48 - 2008-04-06

  • allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
  • drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.

Modules

coroutine process abstraction
truly asynchronous file and directrory I/O
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/Handle.pm
in Coro/LWP.pm
in Coro/Timer.pm
in Coro/Storable.pm