NOTE: This documentation describes the style of threading that was available in Perl 5.005. Perl 5.6.0 introduced the early beginnings of interpreter-based threads support, also known as ithreads, and in Perl 5.8.0 the interpeter threads became available from perl level through the threads and threads::shared modules (in Perl 5.6 ithreads are available only internally and to XS extension builders, and used by the Win32 port for emulating fork()). As of Perl 5.8.0, ithreads has become the standard threading model for Perl. As of 5.9.0, the older threading model is not supported anymore. Malcolm Beattie mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk Last updated: 27 November 1997 Configure-related info updated 16 July 1998 by Andy Dougherty Other minor updates 10 Feb 1999 by Gurusamy Sarathy More platforms added 26 Jul 1999 by Jarkko Hietaniemi Removed 5005threads support 03 Oct 2002 by H.Merijn Brand