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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:32:18 +0100
From: Sebastian Weber <webersebastian@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Cygwin Perl 5.8.7 - Thread signalling gives errors in standard distribution
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Hi All,

I just experienced the following problem: When using the normal perl 
packaged with Cygwin (v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int) and 
trying thread signalling with threads->kill(), I get an error.
For example the following script:

   use threads;
   sub thr_func
   {
       $SIG{'KILL'} = sub { die("Thread killed\n"); };
       while (1) {}
   }

   my $thr = threads->create('thr_func');
   $thr->kill('KILL')->detach();

Errors out with:
Can't locate auto/threads/kill.al in @INC (@INC contains: ...) at 
./test.pl line 22
A thread exited while 2 threads were running.

After installing the newest threads module from CPAN (v1.57, 
http://search.cpan.org/~jdhedden/threads-1.57/), everything works fine. 
I believe, the cygwin distribution still uses an outdated threads 
module. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Regards, Sebastian

		
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