>Um, all instances of perl under Unix are instantiated
>using exec(). DESTROY doesn't get called if you script
>goes away because of a successful exec. How perl was
>started doesn't matter.
That is not completely true. If you'd do `exec perl -e 'print "hello world\"'` on your shell, then the shell will be thrown away and be replaced with the perl interpreter. It wont return either...

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