Alright adding that print message now.

As for adding the trace messages to threads.xs, not sure how to go about that. I searched for it in the perl installation folder for it but it was not there. Is it part of the threads.dll?

Do you think any harm would be caused from doing something like my $val = eval{$join->join()}; as just a way to prevent the server from crashing. We have multiple users issuing commands to another larger server, which randomly picks these smaller servers to issue commands against, so one of them going down is very annoying for them and requires us to constantly monitor them.

Thanks very much for your response again, you are quite the helpful monk.