Re: HTML::Parser is not thread-safe

On 1/11/07, Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have tried using HTML::Parser in a threaded application. If an
> HTML::Parser object exists when there is more than one thread, it has
> problems destroying the object afterwards (and the program dies).
>
> Here are a few one-liners (and their output) that demonstrate the
> problem:
>
> $ perl -MHTML::Parser -Mthreads -e'(async{new HTML::Parser})->join'
> Bad signature in parser state object at 3767c0.
> Unbalanced string table refcount: (1) for "_hparser_xs_state" during
> global destruction.
> Scalars leaked: 4

I see the same noise here on Linux, so there is definitively a problem
here.  I have no idea what the problem is though.  I have tried to
ignore knowing much about 'threads'.  There should be no inherent
reason for HTML::Parser not to be thread safe.  Anybody with threads
know-how that can help?

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Gisle Aas