Re: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl

Read "perldoc perlipc" for a start. You "could use shared memory segments, but considering your level of Perl experience, a simpler solution is to put the number into a database....or....just write it to a file somewhere, to retain it's value from script to script.

There are many fancy ways to do this, like auto spawing the next script, passing the current number as a parameter.

But show some code as to what your idea is.....I smell homework.

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Re^2: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2009 at 00:51 UTC
If you wish to share between machines, you cannot use shared memory segments.	[reply]
Re^3: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 31, 2009 at 10:30 UTC
Sure, you can..... the number can still be stored on one master machine in shared mem, controlled by a daemon, and have the daemon listen for external socket connections. The program can run over the socket. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]
Re^4: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2009 at 15:24 UTC
You know as well as I do that that is not what is generally meant by sharing data using shared memory. Yes, technically shared memory is used, but what enables sharing is the client/server setup. Which takes a lot of work and doesn't change much whether or not it uses shared memory.	[reply]
Re^5: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 31, 2009 at 17:00 UTC