Can I start a wish list for forks::shared? Support for Thread::Semaphore
Cheers, -J -- On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > At 16:56 -1000 11/21/02, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > > You should be able to run threaded applications unchanged by simply making > >> sure that the "forks.pm" and "forks::shared.pm" modules are loaded, e.g. by > >> specifying them on the command line. This doesn't work still because the > > > : shared attribute has not yet been implemented. > >Are you still working on forks::shared? I'm very interested to see > >how your going to implement pseudo shared variables. > > I've been swamped with reality lately, and am still moving all of my > development stuff onto Mac OS X. Just too much to really keep > updating modules the way people have become used to ;-) > > It is high on my list of things to do. But getting attributes to > work on <5.8 without using Attributes::Handler (which I think a basic > module such as forks.pm should not depend on) is uncharted territory > for me. It's basically a matter of missing tuits. > > My plan is to release a 0.02 with attributes and faster communication > between threads to be available before Dec. 1st. > > Shared variables alreadyb work though, it's the "syntactic sugar" of > the : shared attribute that doesn't work yet (the share() function > _does_ work). > > > Liz >
