I'm trying to access a blessed reference to a tied hash from a child thread and I'm going nuts in the process. Could someone shed some light on how to accomplish this?

At the point the "object" is created by the parent print $HS returns:

Win32::OLE=HASH(0x296b448)

and print Dumper(\$HS) returns:

$VAR1 = \bless( {
                   'plugin' => undef,
                   'ThreadID' => 1124,
                   'NoLog' => 0,
                   'hwnd' => 1900794,
                   'DebugMode' => 0,
                   'EventCount' => 2,
                   'DeviceCount' => 2,
                   'LastCommandSelected' => undef,
                   'SunRise' => '7:02 AM',
                   'SunSet' => '4:13 PM'
                 }, 'Win32::OLE' );
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So all is good up to this point. The parent then spawns a child and the same code run in the child thread produces:

Win32::OLE=HASH(0x437c94c)

Calling Dumper(\$HS) in the child crashes the application without any output to stderr/out. Even trying print $HS->{SunSet} causes the same crash.

This is all I want for Christmas.

-Nitrox

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