alarms raised in the created thread were indeed caught by the main thread.

Which versions of Perl & threads?

I ask, because that is not what I see:

perl -Mthreads 
-E"
$SIG{ALRM}=sub{die qq[main:Awooga!\n]}; 
async{
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub{ die qq[thread:Awooga\n] }; 
    alarm 3; 
    sleep 5
}->detach; 
sleep 7;"

Thread 1 terminated abnormally: thread:Awooga

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The alarm goes off, the thread-local signal handler catches it and executes and dies, the main thread then completes in the normal way.

In reply to Re^4: Threads, bash, and networking by BrowserUk
in thread Threads, bash, and networking by morganda

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