Perl 5.8.1 crash description

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf