Re: Turn $$ into a magical readonly variable that always fetchesgetpid()

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:24:33PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > I know there's at least one XS module on CPAN that does a similar
> > dance to correct this. I'm very much in favor of this, IMO the current
> > situation is a premature optimization that only causes trouble.
> 
> > Leon
> 
> I'd even go so far as to suggest that $$ *not* mapping to getpid() 
> is a bug.  I'm surprised that there's code that lets it not get 
> updated correctly.  It is conceptually intended to map to getpid().

Purely idle speculation, but if $$ behaves this way currently, what of
$< $> $( $)  ? Do these cache their values, or are they magical to
get{,e}{u,g}id() ?

I'll go off sourcediving in a moment once I've finished some unrelated
stuff and take a look...

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