Umm, either you read me wrong, or theres some misunderstanding. Objects/blessed scalars *do* work fine when shared, I can use them in more than one thread, no problem. The perldoc claims that 'bless' only blesses a thread local reference, and leaves the value in other threads, shared or not. This is plain untrue, according to my tests at least.

Update: Oops. I didnt test enough, it seems. The bless creates an object in each thread the object is shared in, but changes to one do not reflect in the other, so I guess they're not really shared after all. </darn>

I upgraded to 5.8.2 some time ago, while testing another thread problem, which core dumped in 5.8.1, this now works in 5.8.2. (See 5005threads -> ithreads (porting)) I hadnt used 5.8.1 much, because of the quick release of 5.8.2, and the fact that it is binary compatible with 5.8.0, unlike 5.8.1.

C.

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