It is not clear why you need the pcap object to be SHARED, since your code shows no locking around it anyway, and only one thread appears to be active.

My suggestion would be to create the my $capobj = Net::Pcap::open_live($dev,1024,0,0,\$err); as a not-explicitly-shared object in the main code, then start the &capture thread - either passing it the object, or letting it access the global (thread copy of the) object.

You still retain active control in the main code, and, presumably, can still interrupt the capture by calling "breakloop", since you retain the (original) $capobj.

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In reply to Re: Shared variables between threads by NetWallah
in thread Shared variables between threads by Saladino

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