Excuse me for having to make this separate thread, but here's an article that I found posted on this site by a fellow monk. It relates to 'threading' and how to use fork() under Windows OS for that matter (after all the functionality _is_ there... ;-).
http://www.geeksalad.org/fork/all.html
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith