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<p>Err, you are using alias there in a completely different sense than it is usually used in perl, and I think most people who know the details of how perl magic works would call it a copy, not an alias.
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In the sense [tye] was talking about, which has nothing to do with where a thread starts running, threads emulate fork (and not vfork, either).
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