I must have a problem with my mod_perl set up. When I try to run this script, I get a "child pid 451 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)". It seems that creating the thread causes the error. This is the startup line from the log file with the apache, mod_perl, and perl versions.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.5 configured -- resuming normal operations The script that causes a failure is #!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use threads; use threads::shared; my $temp = threads->new(\&foo,"mike"); exit; sub foo { my $input = shift; my $number = int(rand(10)); print "this went in the thread\n"; return($number); }