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Can we take that the lack of a refutation that this problem also occurs on a single cpu Linux system to mean that the problem lies in the semantics of the whole cond_* mechanism and not just in the Win32 emulation of it?

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Re^12: baton passing threads and cond_signal
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 22, 2007 at 19:32 UTC

    The people discussing perlbug 41574 think it's specific to (some versions of) Windows.
    The only person in this thread reporting the problem uses WinXP.
    I only have access to Windows machines.

    I'd take the lack of refutation as nothing more than people not reading the thread this deep.

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      Fair do's ike {.oO(I hope that abbrev is endearing and not insulting)}. I have an axe to grind here in that I think that the pthreads APIs are broken, hence my following along on this thread.

      If the OP doesn't raise another root level post to clarify the problem, I will.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        If there are problems with pthreads (which I guess perl/windows does not use, but I may be wrong) I would be interested, so go ahead an post away :-)

        I've got some other issues with perl threads (I mean, the perl API to threads, not the actual implementation - I don't know enough about that) so maybe I should take some time to write them down too.

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