Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: atacama.four-d.de: mail set sender to using -f Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:23:48 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: Thomas Pfaff To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-1 In-Reply-To: <20020730215831.57236.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: pfaff@antarctica.intern.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > --- "Gerrit P. Haase" 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/