Re: HTML::Parser is not thread-safe

In article <[email protected]>,
 [email protected] (Father Chrysostomos) wrote:
> It seems to work fine now, except that, if a Parser object is created  
> within a thread *other than* the main thread, perl complains about  
> leaking scalars when the program exits.
> 
> $ perl -MHTML::Parser -Mthreads -le'(async{new HTML::Parser})->join;  
> END { print "end" }'
> end
> Scalars leaked: 1

However, perldoc threads says:
> Returning objects from threads does not work.

So don't do what you did in that example. :-)


/Bo Lindbergh