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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > This program will make perl 5.8.1 expand to using 350 mb on my linux > > machine within 60 seconds: > > > > use threads; > > use threads::shared; > > my @shared : shared; > > @shared = (1) while (1); > > > > On perl 5.8.1-1 in cygwin in Windows 2000 it will crash perl > > within about 20 seconds. ActivePerl 5.8.1 isn't out but it crashes > > 5.8.0 build 806 just like cygwin's perl. > > Can you please try the final released cygwin version, 5.8.1-1 was a > per-release. It's okay Eric, no need to bother! The bug is present in bleedperl as well. It's not a platform- or release-specific bug. Dave. -- In my day, we used to edit the inodes by hand. With magnets.