Perl with thread support is labelled experimental for good
reason. Unless you care to debug the problems with
threading, I recommend rebuilding Perl without threading
and starting over.
Note that the final threading model in 6.0 is likely to
be unlike the models in 5.005 and 5.6 (which differ from
each other as well IIRC.)
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