As you posted it, the code works fine for me.

When using threads (as when using unicode or the other fairly recent additions to perl) you should probably run the latest (stable) version of perl and the relevant modules.

I'm running perl 5.8.8 on debian linux, with threads version 1.62 (a few months old) and threads::shared version 1.12 (that's the current version) - note: the threads modules included in the standard perl 5.8.8 distribution are much older than that.

update: yes I'm running this on a core-2 duo intel machine (32 bit linux), so that would work like a multi-processor machine.

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In reply to Re^3: baton passing threads and cond_signal by Joost
in thread baton passing threads and cond_signal by Anonymous Monk

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