Interesting. I haven't tried it on 5.6, only 5.005 (FreeBSD, Linux, and *cough*NT*cough*). I am going to play with that, and maybe sent it to p5p. Or, has anyone seen this in the 5.6 docs? Maybe this is Yet Another Thing Not Working in 5.6
I sent in a bug report, but I haven't gotten a human reply yet. I'm not nearly familiar enough with the internals of Perl to look for the problem myself, unfortunately.