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On 8/9/2012 11:29 PM, Zach Saw wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the testcase, but... would you mind to change it to take the
>> boost lib out of the picture, by using just plain pthread functions, if
>> possible in plain C?
>
> Apparently someone else has already encountered similar problems in
> cygwin perl
> (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg174491.html)
> last year that went unfixed. Now that you have a test case in C++/Boost,
> you're asking for plain pthread/C?

The easier it is to demonstrate the problem with a minimum of
overhead/code, the quicker the fix.  And now that it's reported to the
Cygwin list, the problem is at least on the right radar.

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Larry

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