--- perl/trunk/README	2005/06/22 15:22:02	15
+++ perl/trunk/README	2005/12/27 12:47:00	19
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@
 
 DEPENDENCIES
 
-This module requires the FUSE userspace library and the FUSE kernel module.
+This module requires the FUSE C library and the FUSE kernel module.
 See http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
 
+If you intend to use FUSE in threaded mode, you need a version of Perl which
+has been compiled with USE_ITHREADS.  Then, you need to use threads and
+threads::shared.
+
 
 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
 
@@ -63,9 +67,12 @@
 
 BUGS
 
-I've begun to build a formal testing framework.  Currently it can mount
-and unmount loopback.pl, and all of the base-level functions have test
-scripts.  These need to be fleshed out as problems are noticed.
+At time of writing, Perl (5.8.7) did not support shared subroutine references.
+Symptoms include a cryptic error message like "Invalid value for shared scalar"
+from Fuse.pm.  Until this is fixed, if you use threaded mode, you need to use
+symbolic references (i.e. passing "main::cb" instead of \&cb).  This doesn't
+allow things like closures, lexical subs and that sort of thing, but it does
+work for me.
 
 The current test framework seems to work well, but the underlying mount/
 unmount infrastructure is a crock.  I am not pleased with that code.
@@ -75,4 +82,3 @@
 * need to sort out cleaner mount semantics for the test framework
 * figure out how to un-linuxcentrify the statfs tests
 * test everything on other architectures and OS's
-