On 3/9/07, Charlie Brady <charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au> wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, James Olin Oden wrote: > > > On 3/9/07, Charlie Brady <charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, James Olin Oden wrote: > >> > >> > I'm trying to rebuild the version of perl that is in CentOS 4.3 to > >> > update the version of threads::shared(3pm) that has a serious memory > >> > leak in it. > >> > >> Please make sure the RedHat's bugzilla is aware of the problem. > > > > Sure...I'll see if I can make a simpler reproducer. It seems like > > when you write something threads in any language simple goes out the > > door. > > Yep. Didn't someone famous once say that threads is for those who can't > work out how to use select()? Funny you should say that. The original design of this daemon was to use select with mulitple processes connected with pipes. I actually know how to do that but at some point as an alternative I started looking at perl threads, and it looked like it would simplify things. I think in the end it did somewhat, but instead of pipes you have fifos to communicate between the master thread and the listener threads...sounds pretty isomorphic to me. Furthermore, I still have to serialize objects going into the fifo because perl does not support just sending an object through the fifo...guess what...I would have had to do that with pipes and select(). Cheers...james > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >