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Implement thread joined data using BerkeleyDB.

Determine what additional functions should be migrated to BerkeleyDB backend vs. those that
should remain as part of the forks package.

Add a high security mode, where all BerkeleyDB data is encrypted using either
native encryption (preferred, if available) or an external cryptography module
of the user's choice (i.e. Crypt::* interface module, or something that
supports a standard interface given an object instance).

Consider porting all shared variable tied class support into package classes,
instead of depending on BerkeleyDB module parent classes for some methods, to
insure method behavior consistency no matter which BerkeleyDB.pm version is installed.

Consider merging shared scalars into one or more BDB recno tables, to minimize
use of environment locks and database files (at the cost of write cursor performance,
if multiple threads attempting to write to different SVs in same physical table).

Consider rewriting all SV actions to use write cursor (unless complete action is already
atomic in BDB API) to insure perltie actions are atomic in nature.  Intention is to allow
use of SV without always requiring a lock (for apps that require highest possible
concurrency).

Consider implementing "atomic" shared variable classes, which allow all non-iterative
operations to be atomic without locks.  This would require overload of all math and
string operators.  Hopefully this will be enabled with an attribute, such
as 'sharedatomic'.  I don't believe this can be achieved with perltie, so only non-blessed
primitives would be allowed for scalars.

May need to enable DB_ENV->failchk when shared var process detects that a thread
has unexpectedly exited.  If return value is DB_RUNRECOVERY, then we likely need
to terminate the entire application (as the shared bdb environment is no longer
guaranteed to be stable.

Consider using bdb txn subsystem environment for locking and signaling. Theoretically,
this should require: 1 recno for locks (idx=sid, value=tid holding lock), 1 recno for waiting
(idx=sid, value=[list if tid waiting]), and N queue for signaling (1 per thread; thread block 
on own queue to wimulate waiting; push from other source acts as signal).  Txn would be
used on locks and waiting recno databases (locking individual elements with cursors). Deadlock
detection could be enabled using BDB deadlock detection engine.  Would need hooks into deadlock
detection forks.pm interface.

Issues:
	1 Rare "Can't create bdb /tmp/perlforks/55/5508/bdb/10.bdb: ; Unknown locker ID".
	2 (Unknown lockup at forks02.t after "ok 4 - check object type isa threads::shared").
		a Can lead to 0% cpu...forever stuck
			- This case occured when BDB env was left for global destruction at END
			- Appears to have been resolved in each thread by doing a scalar(keys %hash),
			which may indicate that DB does a mpool sync?
		b Seen a case of 100% cpu; appears to have been main thread that was stuck
			- This case occured when BDB env was explicitly closed at END
	3 Corrupted array data on join('',@array) after multi-thread push; however, issue
	"disappears" when we add a scalar(@array) in each thread before threads exit.  Perhaps
	this action forces a DB checkpoint (i.e. sync/close)?
		- This issue first arose when DB env close was not explicitly closed immediately before
		fork.  Closing DB env before fork appears to have fixed BDD 4.4+ reliability.

General stability:
	- 4.3: quite stable, rare cases of above issues on certain platforms (cygwin, ?)
	- 4.4: quite stable, rare case of above issue (1) (cygwin, ?)
	- 4.5: