I've never had any difficulty getting Perl to crash when using the emulated fork under Win32. Even trivial programs will crash or just plain "act strange". It is so easy to get it to fail that I haven't even bothered filing a bug report (just picking which of dozens to send in first would be a problem).

As for multiprocessing, I've mostly replaced fork with: 

    if(  @ARGV  &&  $ARGV[0] eq "-child"  ) {
        shift( @ARGV );
        # child code here
        exit( 0 );
    }

    # Am parent
    # ...
    system(1,$^X,$0,"-child",@ARGV); # run child
    # ...

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in cases when I needed it.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: How to multiprocess in Win32? by tye
in thread How to multiprocess in Win32? by Rex(Wrecks)

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