It is possible to change vars in the main script with fork if you use
IPC::Shareable
But be forewarned it's gets pretty cumbersome when you have 2+ processes
sharing vars.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: threads in perl
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> On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 02:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I want to execute same perl procedure with different parameters at 
> > the almost same time in a perl program indefendantly. (next process 
> > should be started without waiting for the end of previous one)  The 
> > procedure is located in .pm file. How can I use thread in 
> perl to get 
> > my work done?
> > 
> > regards
> > Rohana.
> 
> You need to question whether or not you need threads.  You can achieve
> much the same result with fork.  If your subroutine does 
> things without
> needing to modify variables in the main script then fork is probably a
> better solution.  Read perldoc -f fork for more info.
>  
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