I'm trying to run a network server that uses iThreads. Here is the general idea
of how I think the process flow should go:
Application sets up a pool of n threads.
Connection goes to socket.
The socket is queued somehow (using Thread::Queue, or some such mechanism).
Free thread in the pool gets the socket from the queue and does what it needs
to do with it.
Well, this doesn't seem to work at all. Thread::Queue won't enqueue the socket
ref (I'll just use $s from here for simplicity). I've tried somehow using
an arbitrary number in a hash and queue that instead - like: $foo{$bar} = \$s,
and that fails too. I'm getting the oh-so-useful "invalid data for shared
scalar" error message.
I've also tried setting up a pool of threads all waiting for socket connections
in sort of a first-come-first-serve form, but that just doesn't work at all.
While setting up a network server using fork() is very easy, it is also
inherently unreliable and I'm trying to set up a better and more elegant
solution using threads, however I'm running into a brick wall here.
Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
