Bug#706453: A reference
Matt S Trout
mst at shadowcat.co.uk
Tue Apr 30 12:21:39 UTC 2013
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/02/msg183037.html
The key part:
>>> Ah, but it's buggy and causes mysterious failures that are hard to
>>> diagnose for users after the required functionality had been removed. This
>>> has been reported, and the author of IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent has had
>>> ample time to fix it.
>>
>>As you did to Rocco, I claim "citation needed".
>
>Condvars stop working, as well as programs using other event loops than
>IO::Async.
Sadly, he never expanded on 'stop working' in any way that allowed anybody
to duplicate the problem.
Also, my production code using IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent plus
AnyEvent::Impl::Perl plus condvars ... worked fine. Until the die() was
added.
So, yeah. Intentional gratuitous breakage.
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