At 01:58 PM 5/4/2001 +0200, Artur Bergman wrote:
>01-05-03 18.48, skrev Doug MacEachern p� [EMAIL PROTECTED] f�ljande:
>
> > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Artur Bergman wrote:
> >
> >> does :shared work in bleadperl? attrs.pm doesn't seem to have a clue about
> >> it? There are two issues here as I see it.
> >
> > the shared attribute works in bleedperl, but it does not mean what you
> > think it means. search the archives for GvSHARED, in particular:
> >
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-02/msg00535.html
> > in a nutshell, GvSHARED GVs are not copied across perl_clone, and
> > piggyback the existing SvREADONLY checks for memory
> > savings. these `shared' GVs cannot be written to once marked as GvSHARED.
>
>Unless one unmarks them and protect them using Mutexes. (just turn of
>readonly)
Just make sure that it's *really* readonly. That means no
stringification/numification after the flag is set.
Dan
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