Problem w/non-reference return values from 'remote_foreign_call()'

[Chip K. <Chi...@op...>]

The "Webmin Modules" documentation & example code indicate that there is no
restriction on return value types from remote_foreign_call() but I am
getting some odd behaviour when calling a remote function which returns an
array as opposed to an array reference.  The following code fragments
illustrate what I am seeing:

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# The following two functions are in a module on host #1 :

sub remote_function1()
{
	# create an empty array.
	@empty_array1 = ();

	# return the empty array.
	return(@empty_array1);
}

sub remote_function2()
{
	# create an empty array.
	@empty_array2 = ();

	# return a REFERENCE to the empty array.
	return(\@empty_array2);}
}

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# The following function is in a module on host #2 and calls the
# two remote functions on host #1:

sub sandbox()
{
	@array1 = &remote_foreign_call(some_server, some_module, remote_function1);
	$length_array1 = scalar(@array1);

	$ref_array2 = &remote_foreign_call(some_server, some_module,
remote_function2);
	@array2 = @$ref_array2;
	$length_array2 = scalar(@array2);
}

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Executing the function "sanbox()" above will result in $length_array1 == 1
(WRONG), while $length_array2 == 0 (CORRECT).  Why the descrepency?  Should
functions called via remote_foreign_call() always return references?  I am
new to Perl, but the serialize/unserialize_variable() functions in
web-lib.pl suggest that only references to arrays & hashes are supported.

thx,

Chip Kaye