Hi there,

Thanks for your suggestion (I think I already mentioned the OS in my first post but here it is again: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11; also perl -v says my perl was built for built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi)- I ran your script and here is the output I get:

perl v5.8.8
---------------

start: $VAR1 = undef;

after set handler: $VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };

after require: $VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };

after import: $VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };


OS: linux
Versions:
Perl
Carp 1.04
Config none
Data::Dumper 2.121_08
Errno 1.0901
Exporter 5.58
Exporter::Heavy 5.58
IO 1.22
IO::Handle 1.25
IO::Select 1.17
IO::Socket 1.29
IO::Socket::INET 1.29
IO::Socket::UNIX 1.22
Net::DNS 0.66
Net::DNS::Header 704
Net::DNS::Packet 837
Net::DNS::Question 800
Net::DNS::RR 828
Net::DNS::RR::Unknown 388
Net::DNS::Resolver 830
Net::DNS::Resolver::Base 830
Net::DNS::Resolver::UNIX 482
Net::DNS::Update 517
SelectSaver 1.01
Socket 1.78
Symbol 1.06
XSLoader 0.06
bytes 1.02
constant 1.05
overload 1.04
strict 1.03
vars 1.01
warnings 1.05
warnings::register 1.01

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perl v 5.12.5
-----------------

start: $VAR1 = undef;

after set handler: $VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };

after require: $VAR1 = undef;

after import: $VAR1 = undef;


OS: linux
Versions:
Perl v5.12.5
Carp 1.17
Config none
Data::Dumper 2.131
Errno 1.11
Exporter 5.64_01
Exporter::Heavy 5.64_01
IO 1.25_02
IO::Handle 1.28
IO::Select 1.17
IO::Socket 1.31
IO::Socket::INET 1.31
IO::Socket::UNIX 1.23
Net::DNS 0.66
Net::DNS::Header 704
Net::DNS::Packet 837
Net::DNS::Question 800
Net::DNS::RR 828
Net::DNS::RR::Unknown 388
Net::DNS::Resolver 830
Net::DNS::Resolver::Base 830
Net::DNS::Resolver::UNIX 482
Net::DNS::Update 517
SelectSaver 1.02
Socket 1.87_01
Symbol 1.07
XSLoader 0.15
bytes 1.04
constant 1.20
overload 1.10
strict 1.04
vars 1.01
warnings 1.09
warnings::register 1.01

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In reply to Re^2: SIG{CHLD} altered by require statement on Perl 5.12.1 by sdingare
in thread SIG{CHLD} altered by require statement on Perl 5.12.1 by sdingare

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