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authorMax Maischein <corion@corion.net>2011-05-22 21:36:57 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-05-22 21:50:50 -0700
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parent369fb445f856204b1f9717b96bde7cd9bb9da369 (diff)
downloadperl-0e21945565eb4664d843bb819fb032cedee4d5a6.tar.gz
Turn $$ into a magical readonly variable that always fetches getpid() instead of caching it
The intent is that by not caching $$, we eliminate one opportunity for bugs: If one embeds Perl or uses XS and calls fork(3) from C, Perls notion of $$ may go out of sync with what getpid() returns. By always fetching the value of $$ via getpid(), this bug opportunity is eliminated. The overhead of always fetching $$ should be small and is likely only used for tempfile creation, which should be dwarfed by file system accesses.
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