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Subject: Re: Were the Perl multithreading problems ever fixed?
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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:14 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> Last year I had reported some problems with a Perl script that utilizes multithreading.  I believe it was Reini Urban who told me that there were known problems with Perl multithreading and that an ETA for a set of fixes was not known yet.  Does anyone know if those particular Perl multithreading issues have been dealt with in later Cygwin releases?  I'm still on 1.7.17.

These were entirely perl related and not cygwin.
And most of the known problems were fixed with the change from
non-thread safe usemymalloc (perl internal malloc) to the thread-safe
system malloc
with 5.14.2.
There are still minor thread problems within perl, but nothing dramatic.

The upcoming 5.18.0 should have fixed more. Do you have a link to your
report? So I can test it.
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Reini Urban
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