I've used Parallel::ForkManager on unix a couple of times and it's fantastic, takes all the hassle out of dealing with forking yourself, however I'd like to get it working on win32.

When I try and use it, it causes perl to hang with the error "Bizarre SvTYPE 28 at C:/Perl/site/lib/Parallel/ForkManager.pm line 274.". That line in the code is my $pid=fork();.

I thought fork now worked on win32? I poked about a bit in ForkManager.pm and spotted some comments talking about win32. I couldn't seem to find anything on perlmonks/google that helped.

I'm using ActiveState's 5.6.1 build 629 if that helps.

Thanks a lot.
Gavin.

In reply to fork on win32 (with Parallel::ForkManager) by gav^

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