Serious thread problem? [ptsekov@gmx.net: Perl 5.8.1 crash description]

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 7 22:13:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@gmx.net> -----

> Short description:

> Now, when reentrant structures are allocated as part of the
> Cygwin thread creation, these structures are allocated on
> the thread stack. Newlib keeps a pointer to one of this
> reentrant structures in the FILE structure.

Dang. I'm not -sure- of the posix expected behaviour for fdopen(), but
I'm pretty sure it's meant to return a process-file FILE pointer, not
thread wide.

Cheers,
Rob 
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