in reply to Win32 fork using open3

Greetings,

I would place my bets on the fork() emulation that,as can be found elsewhere on PM, does not properly shine on Win32.
AFAIK, open3 does implicitly fork...
Cheers,
alf

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Re: Re: Win32 fork using open3
by NaSe77 (Monk) on Jun 05, 2002 at 13:36 UTC
    i can see that there is a need to to implicitly fork() to implement open3 ... and i also can see it in the code of Open3.pm ... but i still cant see why this doesnt work on win32 ... since i have forked before on win32 using perl and it worked .

    is there another way to do something like open3 not using the acual command?

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Re: Re: Win32 fork using open3
by belg4mit (Prior) on Jun 05, 2002 at 19:00 UTC
    tye is correct. In fact anything named open (IPC::Open3, IPC::Open2 {A wrapper for Open3}, open) does an *implicit* fork. Which in Win32's case are not real faked up forks, and work quite well. Afterall you were always able to open pipes in Win32, even when fork hadn't been faked.

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