Hi monks!

I've got a little problem with IPC::Shareable that I don't really understand, first of all, some code:
#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
use IPC::Shareable;

my %options     = ( create          => 1,
                    exclusive       => 0,
                    mode            => 0644,
                    destroy         => 0 );

tie %data,          'IPC::Shareable', 'data', { %options };

my $i = 0;
while (1) {
    print $i++."\n";
    %data = ();
    $data{'test'}{'test'} = $i;
    sleep 1;
}

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In the while-loop I want to delete %data, which also works fine as it should, but the $data{'test'}{'test'} = $i line always creates a new semaphore in the IPC-Memory, but data is pretty much the same as before. But when I would do $data{'test'} = $i it wouldn't.I know that IPC always creates new shares for each hash-var but I clear them all so it shouldn't be doing this or am I wrong? And how to prevent this?

I've got a loop that checks a file each 20 seconds and if it changes it updates a hash with new data so my IPC-Mem would come to its limits pretty fast.

giant

Edit kudra, 2002-10-27 Changed title

In reply to Delete shares with IPC::Shareable by kodo

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