I'm using the 5.005 perl threads to create a new thread everytime i receive a connection to a server.

Within the thread, I create a parser object like:

my $parser = MIME::MyParser;

where MyParser is my subclass of MIME::Parser. There are no global variables in my subclass..

The problem is this: even though I have no global variables in my program, the threads share variables.

The Parser modules creates some instances of other objects, like MIME::Head, and MIME::Entity, etc...

And as more threads are created, these objects appear to append to the old values of them, even though the 'constructors' of the classes are called..

I had this problem with my subclass of Parser with a key of $self, and I just undef the important ones before a new one was created, and that seemed to work..

I can't figure out why the objects aren't only in the scope of the threads, and how to fix that ...

help?

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