in reply to Perl 5.8.8 on Windows, Hang in I/O operations using perlembed

test.txt contains traces from all the threads making debugging it more difficult.

I strongly suggest that you add some perl level tracing in the scripts that uses threads->tid; as (the first) part of each trace message.

Trying to debug threaded apps with traces that mix the thread's output together without identification is a fool's errand.

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