: '''[thread]::create''' ?'''-joinable'''? ?'''-preserved'''? ?''script''?
Creates an interpreter in another thread. That interpreter will have the [thread] [package] pre-loaded into it, and will be the master interpreter for that thread. If supplied, ''script'' will be evaluated within the new interpreter; otherwise a default script (containing just `[thread::wait]`) will be used.
Returns the ID (as in [thread::id]) of the newly created thread.
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''[[TODO: Document the '''-joinable''' and '''-preserved''' options.]]''
**Bad Interaction With Tailcall**
[AMG]: At least in Tcl 8.6.9 on x86_64 Linux, [[thread::create]] and [tailcall] do not seem to agree. I hoped I could create and initialize a thread like so:
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set thread [thread::create [list apply {{auto_path} {
set ::auto_path $auto_path
package require myPackageHere
tailcall thread::wait
}} $auto_path]]
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However, when it comes time to release or cancel the thread or outright exit the program, sometimes it SIGSEGVs, locks up, aborts due to "FlushChannel: damaged channel list", or aborts due to double free or other corruption. And sometimes it even works! Totally random.
Instead, I have to create and initialize the thread using separate commands:
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set thread [thread::create]
thread::send $thread [list set auto_path $auto_path]
thread::send $thread {package require myPackageHere}
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