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At 13:39 -0400 10/23/03, Jack Steadman wrote:
> > No, forks.pm _does_ support the shared attribute since September 27
>> (version 0.06 then, at 0.08 now). So you wouldn't need to change
> > any code at all to try it... At least it shouldn't ;-)
>gave forks a try (perl -Mforks -Mforks::shared) and got this:
>lock can only be used on shared values at
Argh. The problem is that it didn't handle blessed shared references
correctly (ref versus Scalar::Util::reftype). This is now fixed and
tests for excercising for Thread::Queue are now added.
>i don't know if this is an obvious problem without looking at my code,
It was not a problem with your code.
>though it seems to be choking on Thread::Queue anyway. you mentioned that
>the latest version of forks is .08, and while the module was installed from
>CPAN about five minutes ago, i noticed that the one i got is version .07.
>could that be the problem?
0.08 was a version that was sitting in the wings still and wasn't yet
uploaded. It is uploaded now, with the above fixes allowing
Thread::Queue (and any other blessed shared references) to work
correctly. If you can't find it on CPAN yet, you can get it here
also:
http://www.liz.nl/CPAN/forks-0.08.tar.gz
Sorry for the confusion. I was under the impression that I had
tested Thread::Queue with forks, but just hadn't gotten around to
write a test for it. I should've. I've done it now. It works ;-)
Liz