I was just wondering whether there is any perl module out there which would enable a perl process to share its data structures to other perl processes which might need it?

This is how I would like to use it:

In script whose data structures I want to share

use Sharable;

# %contracts is one data structure I would like to give away
my %contracts = ( 'VLAN1' => 45, 
  'VLAN2' => 46,
  'VLAN3' => 78,
);

Sharable::give_away(%contracts);
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In script where I would like data from elsewhere

use Sharable;

# $pid is PID of process which is sharing data

my $received_stuff = Sharable::get_data($pid);

# $received_stuff will be similar to %contracts
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I hope i've made myself clear. In short I'm talking about a IPC mechanism to share perl data structures. A very high level one, with a maximum of 3 method/subroutine calls in each process to get stuff done.

So. huh. is there..?

I would dearly like to get one suited to my taste, which I guess I can tailor it myself once I get some framework modules.

Thanks for reading.