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in reply to Re: "next" in Parallel::ForkManager, and subroutines
in thread "next" in Parallel::ForkManager, and subroutines

Hmm. The docs for next include: 

"next" cannot be used to exit a block which returns a value
such as "eval {}", "sub {}" or "do {}", and should not be used
to exit a grep() or map() operation.

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Doesn't sound supported to me.

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