use strict; use threads; use threads::shared; my $time : shared; sub listener { my $array_ref = shift; while (1) { { lock $time; print "\tThread time: [$time]\n"; } { lock($array_ref); print "\tThread time: [@$array_ref]\n"; } sleep 3; } } my @array : shared; my $t = threads->new( \&listener, \@array ); while (1) { { lock $time; $time = localtime; } print $time,"\n"; { lock @array; push @array, $time; } sleep 1; } __END__ [16:09:17.53] P:\test>429405 Wed Feb 9 16:09:31 2005 Thread time: [Wed Feb 9 16:09:31 2005] Thread time: [] Wed Feb 9 16:09:32 2005 Wed Feb 9 16:09:33 2005 Thread time: [Wed Feb 9 16:09:33 2005] Thread time: [Wed Feb 9 16:09:31 2005 Wed Feb 9 16:09:32 2005 Wed Feb 9 16:09:33 2005] Wed Feb 9 16:09:34 2005 Wed Feb 9 16:09:35 2005 Wed Feb 9 16:09:36 2005 Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)