Re: OT: Threads & processes (was Re: Threaded Gtk2->main causing segfault)

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Joe Smith said:
> Dan Lyke wrote:
>
>  > ...
>  > And I'll pipe in with my usual tired refrain: As someone who's done a
>  > *lot* of threading and learned the hard way, the only reason to use
>  > threads is that you're working on an OS that doesn't deal with
>  > processes well.  ...
>
>
> And you're only saying that because you work on a platform that has
> lousy thread support   Sorry, couldn't resist
>
> Seriously, can anyone recommend a good tutorial on IPC for Perl/Unix? Is
> there a straightforward way for two processes to share a set of variables?

i've played around with IPC::Shareable some, it has some major issues, but so
long as you share simple things it works well. if you try sharing complex
objects it has shared memory leaks.


-rm