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in thread question about running a system and a perl function background

system 1, is Windows specific fork+exec that works better than fork+exec on Windows.
Ah. I was actually wondering about that -- I had never seen "system 1," before and wasn't even sure whether it was a mistake. (I'm blissfully ignorant of most of the Windows-specific extensions to Perl.) Thanks.
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