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Thanks bluto. 5.8.1 had many other problems with threads. Maybe fixing those problems touched this, or maybe it is just the different implementations on mac/osx versus win. This stuff has been so little exercised that there is probably no way to tell.

I no longer have 5.8.1, but I've tried various size files on 5.8.4, 5.8.5 and 5.8.6 without success:(

I also tried using the two arg version of cond_wait(), but I'll admit to not understanding how that's meant to work at the Perl level anyway.

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