Re^6: win32 open3 strangeness (no fork!)

Heh. demerphq was right after all. Using the emulated fork of Win32 Perl makes things very flakey (at least the last time I tried, which was after I was told "Oh, we fixed all those bugs" but it was still extremely buggy just like the previous few times when I heard "Oh, we fixed all those bugs").

Maybe it is only somewhat flakey now. But I would recommend you not use it.

- tye

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Re^7: win32 open3 strangeness (no fork!) by BUU (Prior) on Dec 16, 2004 at 02:50 UTC
Is there anything I could use instead on win32? I'm working on a webserverish thing and I need to run CGI type scripts. Naturally I have no idea how long the script will take it what it might do so I can't block the entire server waiting for the CGI script to return, so naturally I turned to fork, but as you so rightly point out, it's flakey. As hell.	[reply]
Re^8: win32 open3 strangeness (no fork!) by tye (Sage) on Dec 16, 2004 at 03:02 UTC
Use one of the cpan modules that implements a network server and works on Win32. I believe there are several, but I haven't noticed reviews of any recently. - tye	[reply]