hey guys i have written a simple perl script to test the perl threading ability as follow, you can see i span 3 threads each simply sleeps for 20 secs. but i end up seeing 5 indentical PROCESSES running in my box, those are supposingly threads now ended up as forked children and i really have no idea why.... the cose itself ============================================

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Config;
$Config{useithreads} || die "Recompile Perl with threads to run this p
+rogram.";

use threads;
#use threads::shared;
#use Thread::Running;
#use Thread::Signal;
#use Thread::Queue;

sub ithread
{
my $i;
my $arg=shift||'';
print "just received - $arg\n";
foreach(1...20)
{
print $i++, "\n";
sleep(1);
}
}


foreach(1...3)
{
my $thread = threads->create( "ithread", "arg" );
}

foreach(1...30)
{
sleep(1);
print "running..\n";
}

exit;
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========================================== output of ps -aux ============================================ root 12882 1.0 0.0 11752 3504 pts/0 S 21:07 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/threads.pl root 12885 0.0 0.0 11752 3504 pts/0 S 21:07 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/threads.pl root 12886 0.0 0.0 11752 3504 pts/0 S 21:07 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/threads.pl root 12887 0.0 0.0 11752 3504 pts/0 S 21:07 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/threads.pl root 12888 0.0 0.0 11752 3504 pts/0 S 21:07 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /root/threads.pl r =============================================