The most important thing to get standard modules thread-safe, is to look at the CLONE {} dummy sub. This is called before the thread is cloned. However, this still takes place inside the environment of the original thread, which may not always what you want. Which was one of the reasons for creating Thread::Exit.

So if there is some cloning to do to get thread-safe, first try to get it done with CLONE {}, if that fails try with Thread::Exit.

Yet another approach could be to load Win32::OLE inside each thread. You can either require inside the thread, or use (you guessed it): Thread::Use, which allows you to say: 

useit Win32::OLE;

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where useit stands for "use inside thread".

Hope this helps someone looking at making Win32::OLE thread-safe.

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Starting multi-threading by liz
in thread Starting multi-threading by blackadder

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