This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Perl 5.8.1 crash description
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:16:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.1 crash description
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <15403.1060339847@www22.gmx.net> <20030827210328.GB23179@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Christopher,
Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 um 23:03 schriebst du:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:50:47PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>>And what is your oppinion (in one sentence) about the root of the>
>>>problem?
>>>
>>>Is it a 'bug' in perl or a 'bug' in cygwin or is just that a perl
>>>script never should do s.th. like this?
>>Well, I don't feel like I am the one that can give advices on how to
>>proceed. I don't know Perl codebase at all so I cannot judge their
>>decisions. On the other hand I'm more common with Cygwin code, but not
>>specifically with the threads stuff. Perhaps, Robert or Thomas can
>>share their opinions on this.
>>Anyway it seems suspicios to me that reentrant structures are allocated
>>on the thread stack - but that's only me and I don't really have all
>>the details on the Cygwin pthread implementation.
> This should be fixed in the latest cygwin snapshots, FWIW.
I can confirm this, all the threads tests are passing.
Gerrit
--
=^..^=