1. Declarations:

According to threads::shared on CPAN and perlthrtut, I should be able to declare a shared var using one of the following syntaxes:

use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

# pkg cfg
{                     
   package cfg;
    %cfg::thash : shared = ();
}
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or this:

      
use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

# pkg cfg
{                                                     

    package cfg;
    %cfg::thash = ();
    share(%cfg::thash);
}
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but the 1st gives a compile err and the 2nd gives a runtime err.
By sheer luck/desperation, I tried:

use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

# pkg cfg
{                                                     

    package cfg;
    %cfg::thash = ();
    threads::shared::share(%cfg::thash);
}
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which at least doesn't cause Perl to complain, but looks like a kludge to me... Is there a less wordy/neater way?

2. Assignment

Assuming a valid declaration above, I need to assign values to the shared var, which happens to be a record structure ie I need to do this:

lock(%cfg::thash);
$v1="A";
$v2="1";
$cfg::thash{$v1}{$v2} ="b";
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which gives the error: 'Invalid value for shared scalar '. I haven't been able to figure out a way around this yet. Really need an answer for this, as it's for a production system I'm writing.
Any good solutions gratefully received.
Chris

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