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Thanks for that code example! Passing a filehandle through a thread shared variable was something I've been searching for for awhile. Just for demonstration purposes, it can go the other way too.....create the filehandle in the thread, and read it in main.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

my %shash;
#share(%shash); #will work only for first level keys 
my %hash;

 share ($shash{'go'});
 share ($shash{'fileno'});
 share ($shash{'pid'});
 share ($shash{'die'});

 $shash{'go'} = 0;
 $shash{'fileno'} = -1;
 $shash{'pid'} = -1;
 $shash{'die'} = 0;

 $hash{'thread'} = threads->new(\&work);

 $shash{'go'} = 1;

sleep 1;  # cheap hack to allow thread to setup 

my $fileno = $shash{'fileno'};
open (my $fh, "<&=$fileno") or warn "$!\n";

while ( <$fh> ){ print "In main-> $_";  }

#wait for keypress to keep main thread alive 
<>;

# control-c to exit

################################################################## 
sub work{
    $|++;
    while(1){
       if($shash{'die'} == 1){ goto END };

       if ( $shash{'go'} == 1 ){

        my $pid = open(FH, "top -b |" ) or warn "$!\n";
        my $fileno = fileno(FH);
        print "fileno->$fileno\n";
        $shash{'fileno'} = $fileno;

    $shash{'go'} = 0; #turn off self before returning       
       }else
         { sleep 1 }
    }
END:
}
#####################################################################
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In reply to Re^2: FileHandles and threads by zentara
in thread FileHandles and threads by sodul

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