Hi, My longtime working project, with sockets in threads, became unstable. After unistalling Activestate Perl 5.8.0 and FRESH installing v5.8.2 b808 (Windows msi installer) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread. I get many Perl errors such as "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at D:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket.pm line 46." and similar others. Also, Perl.exe crashs! easily :( This simple code will produce the error and/or crash Perl.exe. Using Activestate Perl 5.8.2 on Windows 2000 Server SP2. It worked just fine for me on v5.8.0. You may need to retry few times to get the error or the crash. Please advise :) ============================== 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.008;             # 5.8 required for "stable" threading
use strict;
use warnings;

use threads;
use threads::shared;
use IO::SOCKET;

   for (my $i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
      threads->create(\&start_thread, "www.yahoo.com:80")->detach;
#      threads->create(\&start_thread, "www.yahoo.com:80")->join; #wor
+ks, but who cares :)
   }
   sleep(5);
   print STDERR "done\n";
   exit;

sub start_thread {
   my $hostport = shift;
   my $tid = threads->self->tid;
   print STDERR "Connecting $tid\n";
   my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto    => "tcp",
                                      PeerAddr => $hostport);
   $socket or die "[$!]\n";
   $socket->autoflush(1);
   close($socket);
   print STDERR "Closing $tid\n";
}

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In reply to Activestate 5.8.2 broke my threads :( by Anonymous Monk

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