Hello Monks,

I am trying out IPC::Sharable and running into a bit of a misunderstanding on my part. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction.

When I try to use references I leak semaphores all over the map.... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IPC::Shareable;
use Data::Dumper;

my %stuff;
my $shm = tie %stuff, 'IPC::Shareable', undef, { destroy => 1 };
$SIG{INT} = sub { die "$$ dying\n" };
$SIG{CHLD} = sub { wait() };

my @children;
foreach (1..10)
 {
  my $pid = fork();
  if ($pid == 0)
   {
    push(@{$stuff{$_}}, $$);  # this leaks

#   $stuff{$_} = $$;          # this doesn't
    exit 0;
   }
  else { push (@children,$pid); }
 }

waitpid ($_,0) foreach (@children);

print Dumper(%stuff);
print "\n\nCLEAR YOUR SHARED MEMORY\n";
print "(ipcs -m ; ipcrm -m ; ipcs -s ; ipcrm -s)\n";

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Apparently using this for refs is bad, but I really would love to make a hash of arrays for managing the result set of my actual code....

Can I get some assistance understanding what I seem to have missed? Perhaps a pointer or so in the right direction for this type of thing?


jcpunk

In reply to Leaking Semaphores and Shared Memory by jcpunk

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