I was hoping I could do something like installing a local version of threads.pm to distribute with my script... alas.

Unfortunately, "upgrade perl" is not an option on that family of boxes (they were configured a decade ago for a particular purpose to work in a particular proprietary situation), and any tool I develop for those boxes must work within that framework. If threads ends up improving on my existing script (I don't even know if they will), I'll do a shell wrapper to grep -v that warning away. (My fellow users would complain every time they get a warning using my script.)

Thanks hippo and BrowserUK... at least I know I'm not just doing something wrong.

In reply to Re^2: detached threads still warn by pryrt
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