First of all, you are not using the current version of perl. You should upgrade to 5.6.0. But, perl threads are still a development item. This is started very clearly in the docs. That is NOT a normal warning for a perl feature! The suggestion is, that it is included for people who like to hack the perl interpretter to play with it, so as to get it working. I don't know about in the version you have, but I know the 5.6.0 documentation clearly states not to ever use perl threads in a production environment, or in anything else that you expect to work.

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