From: "Michael Alaly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have spent the day looking for a version of threads::shared that > will work with the latest version of activestate perl. My usual ppm > install for threads::shared showed no available ppd file and when I > tried to install with CPAN the module there wants 5.8 perl > (activestate is currently 5.6.1). I downloaded the source and found > that it requires at least 5.7.3. > > Any suggestions? Might there be an older version of threads::shared > out there somewhere that I would be able to use or am I out of luck? > Ithreads work just fine .. however no shared data structures makes > them of very little use to me.
What stops you from using any of the usual IPC tools? You can use pipes, sockets, shared memory, semaphores, anything ... It's a little more work, but most of the stuff should work for you just perfect. Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain I can't find it. --- me