I'll second the suggestion to drop C/C++ here unless you have a compelling reason.

You may also want to drop the entire service wrapper, unless you specifically need this program to be controlled like a Windows service. If you just need it to start when the machine does, and you're using Windows 2000 or later, you can just make it a scheduled task that runs "on system startup". The program you launch at that point can use pthreads, pseudo-fork, or whatever else you'd like. Depending on load, it might be interesting to look at the inetd available in Cygwin also.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Externally managed threads using embedded Perl by paulbort
in thread Externally managed threads using embedded Perl by Anonymous Monk

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