I'm not aware of any particular problems with threads under W2k. Mostly, the various win32 platforms seem to suffer the same problems (or not). That's why I suggested trying a different machine--another w2k would be fine--to see if the problem is peculiar to your machine alone.

Reducing it to bare minimum makes sense, though what you have is not that complex. Nothing your doing looks in anyway wrong. Somewhat verbose, but most of that is tracing, probably added to try and track down the problem.

If you can get a small testcase that displays the problem you could raise a perlbug and post it to perlbug@perl.org. Be sure to mention that *only win2k* is affected. You could also post it back here.

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In reply to Re^11: "Thread already joined at..." and "A thread exited while x threads were running" errors by BrowserUk
in thread "Thread already joined at..." and "A thread exited while x threads were running" errors by nickos

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