Hi Mario,

I'm going on vacation soon, so I'll print on the manuals to MCE::* and try to comment on how this research compares. 

DESCRIPTION
A Hobo is a migratory worker inside the machine that carries the
asynchronous gene. Hobos are equipped with "threads"-like capability
for running code asynchronously. Unlike threads, each hobo is a unique
process to the underlying OS. The IPC is managed by "MCE::Shared",
which runs on all the major platforms including Cygwin.

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It seems you are way ahead of me in thinking about this. That's a cool venture (MCE::*); I see tonnes of applications for it.

I appreciate the diff. Thank-you.

Do you have terminology for the scope of data shared between processes?

So PIE in the sky question is...

How would I have a data shared for the lifetime of a block, and I want that block to run first, amongst all the processes that share it? 

{
use MCE::Shared;

my $cnt; 

#tie my $cnt, 'MCE::Shared', { module => 'MCE::Shared::Scalar' }, 0;

tie my $va1, 'MCE::Shared', { module => 'MCE::Shared::Scalar' }, sub {
+ return $cnt++; }; #just for fun let's make a closure 

# How can I be sure that ($val->() == 0)?

say ($val->()) ? 0 : 1;  # says 1 if first caller

}

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My Brain is saying that setting a mutex to protect the call to $val would be a recursive solution with no end? Eg. No atomic-ity, eg deadlock. Yeah, if it was synchronous it would work, but it's not.

I said deadlock is on the horizon because the block could be wrapped in another block with a different mutex controlling the lower one. Got to run to an appointment. I'm going to be late. All the best, Jambo

In reply to Re^2: Why won't this Deadlock? by Jambo Hamon
in thread Why won't this Deadlock? by Jambo Hamon

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