I need to know in what OS and Perl versions the resource to set $0 works.

I know that it works on:

  Linux - Perl-5.8.0 ; Perl-5.8.1 ; Perl-5.8.3
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And here's a test script:

  $|=1 ;

  print "$0\n" ;
  $0 = 'SET_0_WORKS' ;
  print "$0\n" ;
   
  for(0..1000) {
    sleep(1);
    print ".\n" ;
  }
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To test, run it than see if 'SET_0_WORKS' appear is the process list. On Linux we type 'ps aux'.

Thanks in advance.

Also this informations can be added to the Perl docs, since we don't see any list of that there.

UPDATE:
The resource to set $0 is to change the information text of the process (let's say title) in the the process table. So, this is not just to see if $0 = foo works, but to see if the change in that variable appear in the process list. I say that because there are a lot of Windows replies saying that it works!

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