Roger, Thanks for your effort, much appreciated, especially that as side effect fixed my problem :), which I now consider real Perl 5.8.2 bug, at least for AS Windows. But one word first. My problem was also to do with sockets in concurrent threads, so replacing in the thread the socket code with sleep() is not true simulation of the problem. So I want to report the fix for the record: What fixes the problem is moving the threads->detach() on separate line! Thats all. (Long time ago I used to have the lines separate, but some Perl Guru told me it is not Perlish :(, but it worked until 5.8.2. BTW, I still have some instability problems that were not present in earlier version. Thanks all.

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

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