perl 5.10 threads on 1.5.25 = instant crash

Tue Jul 14 21:47:00 GMT 2009

On Jul 14 20:38, Steven Hartland wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" 
> <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
>> On Jul 14 14:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> >On 2009年7月14日 19:16:46 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> >>> sub dothread { print STDERR "I'm a thread!\n" }
>>> >>> [/test]
>>> >> >> WFM with perl 5.10.0 on both 1.5 and 1.7.
>>> >
>>> >Thanks Dave, maybe a Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit issue?
>>>>>> FYI, 1.5.25 is rumored to have problems on Windows Server 2008 64bit.
>>>>>> At the very least, it is known to have inexplicable hangs not seen
>>> in 1.7.
>>>> ... and the script works fine on Windows 7 Build 7201 running under
>> Cygwin 1.7.
>> Thanks guys looks like an update to 1.7 is in order then, any tips
> or gotchas I should be aware of?

The fine manual at
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
is probably a big help.
Corinna
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