What are you expecting, and what did you get which doesn't meet with your expectation ?
FWIW, one wrinkle with threads is that the return context for the thread is set at threads->new time, not on the context of $thr->join(). Your code:
$thr = threads->new(\&sub1, "THREAD1 :");
...
@ReturnData = $thr->join;
...
should be: ($thr) = threads->new(\&sub1, "THREAD1 :");
...
@ReturnData = $thr->join;
...
to provide the right context at the right time.
The fragment: {
lock $foo;
$foo=0;
}
is reasonably plausible. You're locking $foo for just long enough to give it a new value -- so there is no possibility of some other thread attempting to read or change $foo while it's in any intermediate state -- provided they too lock $foo before doing anything with it. (The lock is dropped at the end of the block it is contained in.)
I note that $foo is not initialised to anything.
I note that you: print " Final value :$foo\n";
without locking it. But that's probably OK, because $foo is only changed by the same thread.
I wonder: you're not expecting $foo to work as some kind of semaphore, are you ?
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