Re: $ENV for Threads?

Have you tried doing this ?

sub thread{
   local %ENV = %ENV;
   # ... code ...
}
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Re: Re: $ENV for Threads? by Elian (Parson) on Apr 09, 2002 at 17:31 UTC
That would be... very bad. Don't do it. The local localizes a global, but doesn't make it thread-local, so you'll be changing thigns for everyone. (And without locking either, which will definitely Do Bad Things) There's no good way which actually uses %ENV. Best thing to do is to either wrap access in an interface of some sort, or copy %ENV to a different hash. If you actually need a thread-locak version of %ENV because you're using code you didn't write, well... you're out of luck.	[reply]

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Re: Re: $ENV for Threads?
by Elian (Parson) on Apr 09, 2002 at 17:31 UTC

The local localizes a global, but doesn't make it thread-local, so you'll be changing thigns for everyone. (And without locking either, which will definitely Do Bad Things)

There's no good way which actually uses %ENV. Best thing to do is to either wrap access in an interface of some sort, or copy %ENV to a different hash.

If you actually need a thread-locak version of %ENV because you're using code you didn't write, well... you're out of luck.

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