While trying to debug another program on Windows XP I was overwhelmed by the errors from the following program. I had to ctrl+alt+delete to end process then click away another 10 or so error dialogs. 
perl -e "fork or warn 1 while 1; die 2"

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The popup error is:

perl.exe - Application error

The instruction at "0x..." referenced memory at "0x00000004". The memory could not be "written".

Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program

This is AS perl 5.8.8, build 817, replicated on another machine. Do others get this behaviour? Does blead?

Brad

In reply to win32+fork "Application Error", bug? by bsb

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