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in thread is this a memory leak or do I miss something?

On my machine, then I get refcount 1

SV = PVIV(0x81f14ec) at 0x81fb5a8 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK) IV = 2 (OFFSET) PV = 0x81f5e22 ( "te" . ) "st"\0 CUR = 2 LEN = 6
Machine:
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 40 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)