Greetings,

A consensus appear to exist on the fact that the current forking emulation under Win32 sort of... how would I put this.. sucks.

A thread on perlmonks a few days back pointed out that a number of behaviours of fork are not replicated exactly or at all (given that the emulation is using threads, there is a whole lot of things that stay shared and would actually be duplicated in a real fork...)

That may be the root of your problem. I surely never had any fork() luck on Win32.
Cheers,
alf

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