Perl 5.8.1 crash description

Gerrit P. Haase gp@familiehaase.de
Wed Aug 27 22:11:00 GMT 2003


Hallo Christopher,

Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 um 23:03 schriebst du:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:50:47PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>>And what is your oppinion (in one sentence) about the root of the>
>>>problem?
>>>
>>>Is it a 'bug' in perl or a 'bug' in cygwin or is just that a perl
>>>script never should do s.th.  like this?

>>Well, I don't feel like I am the one that can give advices on how to
>>proceed.  I don't know Perl codebase at all so I cannot judge their
>>decisions.  On the other hand I'm more common with Cygwin code, but not
>>specifically with the threads stuff.  Perhaps, Robert or Thomas can
>>share their opinions on this.

>>Anyway it seems suspicios to me that reentrant structures are allocated
>>on the thread stack - but that's only me and I don't really have all
>>the details on the Cygwin pthread implementation.

> This should be fixed in the latest cygwin snapshots, FWIW.

I can confirm this, all the threads tests are passing.


Gerrit
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