Hello Monks,

The forks module of my Perl installation is causing a segfault and I can't run any script that uses it. The problem appears to be serious, since even a one-line script containing the line use forks; causes a segfault!

Do you have any idea what might be wrong? Any ideas on how I can find out more about what's causing the segfault?

I'm using Perl 5.20.0 on Arch Linux (3.15.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 27 07:41:19 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux). On another computer running Perl 5.14.2 on Linux Mint (3.8.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:35:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) everything is fine!

Thanks in advance,

Panos

In reply to forks.pm segfault by panos80

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