On fredag, apr 18, 2003, at 03:21 Europe/Stockholm, Enache Adrian wrote:

>>
>> Try running it in non threaded perl and see what it does, it should
>> do the same thing!
>
> Are you sure ?
>
> $ ./perl -e 'sub a { ${\$_[0]} = 5 } a "a"'
> Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.
>

Yes I am sure, if it does one thing in non threaded perl, threaded perl 
should do the same!

So this is a bug in the threads code.

Arthur