for my $c (@car_links) {
    my $pid = fork();
    if ($pid == 0) {
        # Reserve for 30 min. total.
        for (1..6) {
            reserve_car($c, $username, $password);
            sleep 300;
        }
        exit;
    }
    
    push @known_cars, $c;
    write_url_to_known_cars($c, $fh);
}

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for my $c (@car_links) {
    threads->create(sub {
        threads->detach;

        # Reserve for 30 min. total.
        for (1..6) {
            reserve_car($c, $username, $password);
            sleep 300;
        }
    });
    
    push @known_cars, $c;
    write_url_to_known_cars($c, $fh);
}

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Both of these exit after fork() and threads->create() on Windows 10 using Strawberry Perl 5.30.2.1 and ActiveState 5.26.3 and 5.28.1. What could be the reason and is it possible to fix this? Both versions work fine on Linux.

I tried AnyEvent too, but I couldn't get it to work either and other event systems seem to need their on loops. The above code is already run in another loop, so I would like to stick with it.

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