Perl threads and UNIX sockets

Hi all, I found a problem in the current cygwin perl (v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int): The following code sets up a UNIX domain socket server and connects to that server in a different thread. It will block forever exactly at the connect / accept calls: #!/usr/bin/perl use thread

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{'KIL