Hi monks,

I have a script works well on Unix but is broken on Win32. I've found wait function might be the devil. Below is my test snippet: 

use strict;
use warnings;


my $max_process = 10;
my $processes = 0;
for my $count (1..100){
    wait if $processes >= $max_process;
    do{print $count."\n";exit} unless my $pid = fork;
    $processes ++;
}

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I hope it print 1 to 100 in turn, but the output is totally insane. Eventually it print 'out of memory' and crash. I guess the reason is wait can't treat negative pid number correctly.

So my question is whether my script could be reused on win32 by a little work or I have to totally rewrite it in thread?

Thanks!

I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction

In reply to wait is broken on win32? by xiaoyafeng

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