[Gllug] Sharing hash

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:49:25AM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> yes, the hash is created before i fork, but i want the changes in the hash made
> by the children to be retained when the child dies,

I doubt that this is possible, except by tieing the hash to a file, and
even then multiple access *might* not be safe.

What about using a recent version of Perl and threads instead of processes?

> Just in case you wonder what i'm up to, I am writing a database server in perl,
> (very simple one with a limited yet useful command system)
> 
> http://gwi.darkspace.org.uk
> 
> It is called 'NSQL' (not sql)

See also: http://www.linux.it/~carlos/nosql/index.html#whatis

Rich.

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