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Re: perl threads on 2008 R2 64bit = crash ( was: perl 5.10 threads on 1.5.25 = instant crash )


On Jul 17 11:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jul 17 15:23, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > Do we have to take other handlers than the OS handlers and the Cygwin
> >> > handlers into account?  Cygwin apps don't install SEH handlers, do
> >> > they?  Or do C++ apps?
> >> 
> >>   Nope, they don't, but that will probably not be the case forever, there are
> >> (long-term) moves afoot to get SEH support into the compiler.  However, we're
> >> in early startup-and-init here; we don't need to worry about what the
> >> application will do once it finally gets going.
> >
> >Sorry, but AFAICS we are not in early startup-and-init.  The threads.dll
> >library is a run-time loaded DLL via dlopen due to the
> >
> >  use threads;
> >
> >statement in the script.  This situation can occur at any point
> >during the runtime of an application.
> 
> Right, and I don't know how you could make the claim that Cygwin apps
> don't install SEH handlers.  We can't possibly know how every Cygwin app

I didn't make a claim, I asked.


Corinna

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