Re: Shared object destruction: docs and historical behavior

[email protected] (Dave Mitchell) Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:53:56 +0100
Newsgroups perl.ithreads
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:26:41AM -0500, Mike Pomraning wrote:
> The threads::shared POD warns:
> 
>     [A shared] object's destructor may get called multiple times, once
> for each thread's scope exit.
> 
> Is this caution still accurate?
> 
> Beginning with perl 5.8.9 / threads 1.71 / threads::shared 1.27 I
> cannot reproduce the behavior.  (5.8.8 does destroy objects multiple
> times for me, however.)

Given that the warning text was removed in the 5.8.9 POD, I think that
it's fair to assume the issue has been fixed.

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