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Forking isn't portable. Windows only emulates it and it doesn't always do this well.

Update: Also, I don't believe this guarantees that the streams will remain in synch. I've had plenty of problems with Test::Builder output getting corrupted when Test::Harness spits it out and if they must be completely in synch or my code fails.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re^4: Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT by Ovid
in thread Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT by Ovid

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