The forking in windows does not actually fork processes, it is an implementation of threading. And as most know, threading is experimental in Perl and definatly not stable.

I have tried a couple "forking" excercises in Windows and have never gotten consistant results. There are other workarounds, but I don't have them off the top of my head. Other monks may have options for you.

This has been one of my main "Perl with Win32" beefs as well.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful than explaining why it has odd behavior.

Update: For external applications look into Win32::Process and Win32::IProcess (the only place I can now find the latter). Both are handy for dealing with processes and spawning new processes in Win32.

"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

In reply to forking in Windows is not what you may think by Rex(Wrecks)
in thread forking in winblows ? by arkamedis21

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