[Pdx-pm] sharing threads

[chromatic]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:12, Fabio45K at netscape.net wrote:

> have any of you guys ever used threading? if so, do you know how to go
> about sharing a scalar variable among the threads?

Provided you have a Perl 5.8 compiled with ithreads, see threads::shared:

	use threads;
	use threads::shared;

	my $var : shared;

(shamelessly stolen from the synopsis of that module)

-- c