not a threads expert, but it looks to me like on Win32, sharing is acheved by cloning the object several times to pass to different threads.. so if you try:
use threads; use threads::shared; { package A; use threads; use threads::shared; sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = &share({}); print "Created $class at $self\n"; return bless $self, $class; } sub get_s { } sub DESTROY { print "Destroy $_[0]\n"; } } my $a :shared; $a = A->new(); for (1..2) { async { print "thread start\n"; $a->get_s(); }->join(); }

you'll see that only the last DESTROY is from an object created by 'new'..
P:\bin>perl threads_test.cgi Created A at HASH(0x225800) thread start Destroy A=HASH(0x1e07d9c) thread start Destroy A=HASH(0x1dbba9c) Destroy A=HASH(0x225800)

Try an inside-out approach:
in 'new', register the created $self in a static hash( ie,
package A; our %created_objs : unique; sub new { ... bless $self, $class; $created_objs{ $self } = 1; return $self; }
and then in DESTROY first check that your object is an original :
sub DESTROY { my $self = shift; if ($created_objs{$self}) { # do my DESTROY stuff delete $created_objs{ $self }; } }
update: added a little code to show that registering must happen after the blessing
update 2: to be perfectly safe, you probably want instead to have a private attribute which is your key in the static hash.. otherwise if your object gets reblessed, you're screwed - "$self" will change

In reply to Re: How to avoid extra DESTROY calls in multi-threaded program? by ivancho
in thread How to avoid extra DESTROY calls in multi-threaded program? by jwu

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