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in thread join() in perl threads does not return

In the absence of code that demonstrates the problem, it is hard to move forward.

A simplistic test of the problem as described shows that the join works fine:

[0]{} Perl> print async{ `perl -e1`; return 'Completed'; }->join;;
Completed
[0]{} Perl>

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The backticks ran in a void context, running an executable that produced no output; the thread ended returning the string 'Completed'; which was retrieved with join, and passed to print and displayed.

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