Is there a way to have your threads (yeah, I know, yet another reason to use fork()) get and set their own environment and then throw it away (eg so that other threads don't get in the way while sleep() ing or doing something useful)? eg: 
sub doSomethingStupid {
   $ENV{TIME} = shift;

   sleep($ENV{TIME});

   print "Time is $ENV{TIME}";
}

@vars = ("1", "2", "3", "1");
foreach $var (@vars) {
   my $thread = new Thread \&doSomethingStupid ($var);
   $thread->detach();
}

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In reply to $ENV for Threads? by robblin

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