[Starkit] starpack vfs can't be accessed from thread

[sgargash at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jeff Hobbs <jeffh at activestate.com>
> sgargash at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hmm...but the child thread can't mount the vfs since (I believe) the
> > vfs package is located in the vfs that it can't access.
> 
> As with all packages, once loaded in any interp, they are available 
> statically to all others.

Thanks for the tip, but do you mean libraries are available (instead of packages)?

Unless I'm missing something, it seems that there's a chicken and egg problem. In order to mount the vfs in the child thread, I need also to "package require vfs::mk4", yet I can't require that package until after I've mounted the vfs. 

Although the whole pack/vfs system strongly resembles magic to me, so I may be missing something basic.

    Scott