Can Filehandles Be Shared Between Threads?

All:

I'm having good success sharing variables across threads with the
exception of filehandles.  I have tried creating filehandles in a couple
of way including using "open $fh". This mini-simulation illustrates the
problem.

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use threads;
use threads::shared;
use FileHandle;

my $fh = new FileHandle; #also tried "my $fh : shared = new FileHandle;"
my %hash : shared;
my $index;

$hash{$index} = \$fh;

results in:

"thread failed to start: Invalid value for shared scalar at module line
614, <$client> line 1."

I need to move filehandles.  Any ideas?

Best,

Steve