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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.
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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        

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