[plug] [OT] Perl Sub Modify Global Variable

[Timothy White]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Timothy White wrote:
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>>Ok. Still no luck.
>>It appears that because I am forking I can't share between forks. This
>>is a real bummer.
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>That's what threads are for :)  Linux's threading in 2.4 is broken
>(well, doesn't quite behave as documented) in odd ways but if you don't
>stress it too hard it should be happy.
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>Either that or keep one process with the "master" copy of the database
>and the others communicate through pipes or unix sockets to query it
>or alter it.  Go a bit further and you're half way to reimplementing
>mysql :P
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Well it's only a very small database and the changes don't need to
remain between server uses.
I discovered that I need threads so I wrote a small script to start my
thread learning. I'm glad I did because I was trying to store the
database in a hash and I can't share that between threads.
Now to think of a better way to store the database in memory.

Tim

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