Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Artur Bergman]

01-05-04 16.16, skrev Alan Burlison p� [EMAIL PROTECTED] f�ljande:

> Artur Bergman wrote:
> 
>> But that is pretty easy to fix by using thread local storage (like perl does
>> for the current perl-interpreter).
> 
> And how exactly will you do this for a third-party binary-only library?

My bad, I meant for user supplied C code on CPAN.

>> Maybe it would be possible to add a option to XS to automaticly add code to
>> mutex protect an entire library. (This won't solve the problem with stored
>> state, but my belief is it would help in most cases).
> 
> This is distinctly non-trivial.

I don't know XS well enough to say it isn't so I take your word on it.

Artur