Hi,

I need to pass an IO::Socket::SSL instance from one thread to another to fix a poorly designed script that I don't have the time to rewrite.

Directly sharing it is not possible (you get an error that it is not sharable) so at the moment I am trying to share the underlying file-descriptor but I am having problems re-creating an IO::Socket::SSL instance in the other thread.

I have tried this:

my $socket_fd :shared;

# in one thread
$socket_fd = $ssl_socket->fileno;

# in another thread

my $ssl_socket = IO::Handler->new_from_fd($socket_fd, "r");

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but that only gives me an IO::Handle-instance and I don't understand the second argument of new_from_fd at all (I had assumed that if I needed to use a mode of "rw" but that raises an error or "invalid mode").

To get an instance of the proper class I have tried 

my $ssl_socket = IO::Socket::SLL->new_from_fd($socket_fd, "r");

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but that only gets me an undef.

So evidently I don't have a clue on how to do this if it is possible at all - can someone please help me here?

Many thanks!

In reply to Passing SSL-socket among threads by morgon

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