Well, I don't know what to say at this point-- so far I've tried it on FIVE different machines of various sorts, all XP but both SP1 & SP2, hyperthreading and not, laptops and desktops, Intel & AMD CPUs, from 866MHZ to 2.8GHZ, and they all readily exhibit the problem. I can come up to a machine, install the AS817 .msi with all the default installation options, then open a dos window and run the .bat test loop above and it will hang in short order, sometimes immediately but always within a small number of iterations. I've yet to find a machine where it DOESN'T happen. I'm running out of machines to test it on... -- Sync

In reply to Re^6: Behavior of threads on XP-- system() works, backtic & popen don't... by Sync
in thread Behavior of threads on XP-- system() works, backtic & popen don't... by Sync

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