Remove the THREADS_HAVE_PIDS hint for NTPL-enabled Linux systems. Otherwise ppids are cached too aggressively, resulting in broken behavior. --- perl-5.8.0/hints/linux.sh.nptl 2004-12-01 12:38:16.021664783 -0500 +++ perl-5.8.0/hints/linux.sh 2004-12-01 12:38:28.213470553 -0500 @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$usethreads" in $define|true|[yY]*) - ccflags="-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS $ccflags" + ccflags="-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE $ccflags" set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / pthread c /'` shift libswanted="$*"