Hi

MS-ERREF: NTSTATUS Values

0xC0000008      STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE       An invalid HANDLE was spec
+ified.
0xC0000005      STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION        The instruction at 0x%0
+8lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.        
+0xC0000006
0xC0000022      STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED        {Access Denied} A process 
+has requested access to an object but has not been granted those acce
+ss rights.
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So, based on that, I try something simple, move the first join next to the second, and the program runs to completion.

Starting over, I add exit 0; after the last join , and it also lets the program complete without exceptions

However, redirecting the output to a file, exit solution crashes the same way. Same if I move some use statements around.

However, the original solution doesn't crash no matter what, create threads first, join them later .

However I'm using perl 5.16.1 a long unsupported windows OS , so :)