in reply to Tainted fork crash on Win32

No crashes here:
>perl -Te "fork" >perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) >perl -Te "fork" >perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

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Re^2: Tainted fork crash on Win32
by xdg (Monsignor) on May 04, 2006 at 01:24 UTC

    ActiveState? If so, which builds?

    -xdg

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      oops, I cut the messages short in my rush to leave.

      This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState. +com Built 00:45:44 Mar 31 2003

      and

      This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall Binary build 635 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState. +com Built 15:34:21 Feb 4 2003

      On WinXP.