Updated: perl-5.8.0-1

[Thomas Pfaff]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

>
> --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > You asked:
> > > Have you compiled this new perl with threading?
> >
> > There is no threading in Cygwin Perl.
> >
> > > In your excerpt of Perl 5.8.0 there is no mention of thread
> > support
> > > that itself seems to be the most visible in new perl.
> >
> > Unfortunately this doesn't work (yet?).  If you are a threads
> > expert
> > please help to debug why we cannot build Perl with threading.
> Gerrit,
>
> I suspect either Robert Collins or Thomas Pfaff could answer your
> question, as they appear to be the resident threads experts.  Perhaps
> they can suggest a way or improve the cygwin dll in a way which would
> support a threaded perl.
>

This seems to be a problem with a threaded perl and fork, the child
crashes with a corrupted stack.
It is rather difficult to track it down as long as gdb does not support a
follow-child mode. I will investigate a bit further.

Thomas



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