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Cygwin Perl 5.8.7 - Thread signalling gives errors in standard distribution


Hi All,

I just experienced the following problem: When using the normal perl packaged with Cygwin (v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int) and trying thread signalling with threads->kill(), I get an error.
For example the following script:


  use threads;
  sub thr_func
  {
      $SIG{'KILL'} = sub { die("Thread killed\n"); };
      while (1) {}
  }

  my $thr = threads->create('thr_func');
  $thr->kill('KILL')->detach();

Errors out with:
Can't locate auto/threads/kill.al in @INC (@INC contains: ...) at ./test.pl line 22
A thread exited while 2 threads were running.


After installing the newest threads module from CPAN (v1.57, http://search.cpan.org/~jdhedden/threads-1.57/), everything works fine. I believe, the cygwin distribution still uses an outdated threads module. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Regards, Sebastian


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