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Re^2: How does system(1,"foo") work on Windows?
by samtregar (Abbot) on May 03, 2006 at 17:04 UTC
    Fascinating:

    Support for concurrent interpreters and the fork() emulation was implemented by ActiveState, with funding from Microsoft Corporation.

    -sam

Re^2: How does system(1,"foo") work on Windows?
by wol (Hermit) on Nov 20, 2008 at 15:03 UTC
    I think the more specific link should be perlport (and then scroll down to "system"). This notes that system(1, @args) does the magic thing, and also that it's Win32 specific (which is a bit of a shame).

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