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From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.10 threads on 1.5.25 = instant crash
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:38:01 +0100
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----- 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 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 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?

    Regards
    Steve


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