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in reply to Re^4: delayed die and open3
in thread delayed die and open3

Because it's running exec as the child:
... exec @cmd # XXX: wrong process to croak from or croak "$Me: exec of @cmd failed"; ...
which will abandon the process (unless it dies)
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