Re: Problem With Net::SSH::Expect using Multi threads

Since you're not sharing any information, using fork should work just as well as threads without the headaches, and will probably perform better. Unless you're on Win32.

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Re^2: Problem With Net::SSH::Expect using Multi threads by Anonymous Monk on Aug 20, 2007 at 13:42 UTC
Hey I am compeled to use threads. Any other solution?	[reply]
Re^3: Problem With Net::SSH::Expect using Multi threads by Joost (Canon) on Aug 20, 2007 at 14:04 UTC
According to http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.21/Expect.pod#Is_it_possible_to_use_threads_with_Expect? you should construct each Expect object in the main thread and then spawn the subthread to handle it. I've no idea if that will actually work, but it's worth a try. In general, it's not a great idea to force perl threads on a problem unless you either know that it'll work, or you've got a very good reason to prefer threads over fork() AND you've got the time to fix various bugs like this (and worse). "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]