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Re: Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1

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From:
Stas Bekman
Date:
May 18, 2003 19:25
Subject:
Re: Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1
Message ID:
3EC84097.5080100@stason.org
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>>In particular I think it's very important to resolve the problem of using 
>>ithreads in applications that spawn their own threads (not via perl), like 
> 
> 
> Off-hand, that sounds you don't really want 5.8.1 out any time soon...
> since the problem doesn't sound trivial.

The problem is quite clear. The design was simply not taking into account that 
ithreads might need to work in an environment where native threads and 
perl-interpreters aren't mapped 1:1, so it has relied on using TLS. So the 
data should be moved into an interpreter.

>>threaded mpms in httpd 2.0. Before this problem is solved we can't offer 
>>the DBI threads-based pooling.
> 
> 
>>Also it'd be great to have ex::safecwd finished and be part of the core 
>>release.
> 
> New core modules for 5.8.1?  Surely you are joking.

OK, not the core, but at least getting it to fully work with ithreads.

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