On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alex Menendez wrote:
> Hello, All
>
> I currently have a caching module for dynamic pages that is loaded up upon
> server startup. However, when each child process uses this module they
> each create a copy of the modules caching hash.
>
> I would like to have 1 copy of the caching hash in the parent process that
> each child can read and/or write to.
>
> I have never used it before, however, the storable module seems to be the
> way to go. Is this correct?
There are a number of options. Easiest might be a database+DBI (because
then the DB deals with the locking for you - that's the hard bit of all the
other solutions). Others are a tied hash, IPC, Storable, Data::Dumper.
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