I'm trying to make one of my programs multi-threaded using perl 5.8.1 and threads.pm. It seems to work just fine except that when each thread exits (I think) it emits a warning like:
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/DBI.pm line 628
Each thread has it's own database handle, so each one prints out several warnings. By the time the program is done, it's printed hundreds of of them.
I can't for the life of me figure out what it means or how to fix it. I've search the web and newsgroups with no avail. So at this point, I'm just looking for a way to disable this particular warning. Anyone know if it's possible?
You could try loading DBI inside the thread at runtime:
$thread = threads->new( sub {
require DBI; # can't "use" because that's compile time
requite DBD::yourdriver;
# do your database stuff;
} );Liz
