My script crashes when it calls ping.

The thread perl.exe crash in win32 with use of fork and sockets seems to conclude that in later versions of perl/windows this problem should not occur. However, with Win2000 SP3 and ActiveState Perl 5.8.0, I am getting the following error when my code reaches C:/Perl/lib/Net/Ping.pm: (line 429)

my $pid = fork;

And the following popup dialog appears:

Perl.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You will
+ need to restart the program.
An error log is being created.

[download]
In the dos shell from which I ran the script:

Bizarre SvType [187] at C:/Perl/lib/Net/Ping.pm line 429.

Can anyone offer advice on resolving this problem?
Also, where might Windows store this error log?

Edit by tye, remove hostname from link

In reply to Ping, fork error on Win32 by Anonymous Monk

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