I am trying to create a server that will transfer messages from one client to the other. In order to do that I need to keep a list of client sockets. I am using threads::shared, and every time I try to &share() the new clients socket, I get an error message that you cannot share globs yet.

Is there any way around this? 

use threads;
use threads::shared;
use IO::Socket;

my $server = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalHost => 'localhost', 
                                  LocalPort => 3333,
                                  Proto     => 'tcp', 
                                  Listen    => SOMAXCONN, 
                                  Reuse     => 1);

my %CLIENTS  : shared = ();
my $clientID : shared = 0;

while( my $newClient = $server->accept ) {
    $clientID++;
    $CLIENTS{$clientID} = &share($newClient);  #<--Error

    print "hCLIENT: " . $CLIENTS{$clientID} . "\n"
}

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I know that POE is an alternative, but I would like to use threads instead.

Thanks, Bill

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In reply to How to share sockets between threads by Anonymous Monk

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