On 21 Jan 2002, at 10:41, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:27:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 20 Jan 2002, at 21:47, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 15, > 2002 at 09:51:28AM +0000, Simon Oliver wrote: > > > Beware if runing > ActiveState perl. ActivePerl is compiled with > > > iThreads, which > is not compatible with Storable > > > > Why not? > > Does the author > know? > > Do p5p and/or ActiveState know? > > Is the problem being > worked on by anyone? > > > > Tim. > > This is copied'n'pasted from the > release notes of the current ActivePerl > build: > > The fork() > emulation has known limitations. See perlfork for a detailed summary. > In particular, > fork() emulation will not work correctly with > extensions that are either not thread-safe, or maintain > internal > state that cannot be cloned in the psuedo-child process. This caveat > currently applies to > extensions such as Tk and Storable. > > I don't > know if the above can lead to basic restrictions in the usage of > > DBD::ProxyServer by design, but I know from own experience, that there > has > been at least one ActivePerl release (Perl 5.6.0, build 622) > where Storable > crashed upon errors when retrieve()ing or thaw()ing > in eval blocks (="pseudo- > child-processes" ?). Perhaps opinions > about ActivePerl and Storable are > triggered by this and probably > other broken ActivePerl releases. The current > release (631) does not > exhibit this problem. > > Are you saying that DBD::ProxyServer works with release 631? > > Tim.
I wanted to point to the fact that there have been (fixed) problems with ActivePerl and Storable concerning basic functionality. I also wanted to point to the fact that Storable's problems associated with threads and fork()s obviously are known to the people at ActiveState. With release 631 in my amateurish hands, DBD::ProxyServer seems to work fine with --mode=single (as has been stated earlier in this thread). It also works with --mode=fork until you try to access it with another client ;). It won't start up with --mode=threads. I usually do not use DBD::ProxyServer and have tested this with some minimalistic scripts locally on win2k. Bodo
