I would not recommend to use threads ( both 5005 and ithreads ) in real applications. They are just to buggy. Your application will crash from time to time without reason.
Do it the old way with fork and pipes for production.
Not since 5.8.4 they don't ... unless you have some evidence to the contrary?.. this is just FUD!
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