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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
November 17, 2003 15:00
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 coredump: tied hashes implemented as XSUB methods
Message ID:
20031117230036.GV6287@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:13:14PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:

> I think it had an effect if you applied it to the hash elements, but I 
> don't think it ever did anything to the hash itself.  From looking through 
> the Hash::Utils documentation, I think I probably *do* want to use 
> restricted hashes, as I'm representing a tree of read-only C structs as a 
> tree of hashes, which is why I was fiddling around with SvREADONLY_on in 
> the first place.  However, I'm not aware of any documentation on how this 
> should be done from XSUB code.  I can always look at how Hash::Utils does 
> it, but that's implemented (mainly) in perl rather than XSUB - I was hoping 
> for some existing XSUB code I could plagarise ;-)

IIRC (confirmed by looking at hv.c)

SvREADONLY on the hv makes the hash a restricted hash
(can't add new keys, can't access keys not present, can delete keys)

SvREADONLY on a key also prevents it from being deleted.

(as well as the regular effects of readonlyness)


I think that the implementation should have been marked "subject to change"
as it's not that clean.

Nicholas Clark

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