Hi there I was referred to this post which states this is actually a bug in PERL 5.12

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76138

That seems to match your problem. Consider upgrading to a newer version of RHEL that uses a newer version of perl, or ditch the perl provided by RedHat and compile your own perl. (RH perl should be in /usr/bin/perl, so compile your own perl to /usr/local/bin/perl and change the #! line in your scripts.) You may also try a forced installation of a newer perl version on the current RHEL version.

And please note: Perl is the language, perl is the implementation, and PERL is just wrong.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^10: SIG{CHLD} altered by require statement on Perl 5.12.1 by afoken
in thread SIG{CHLD} altered by require statement on Perl 5.12.1 by sdingare

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