in reply to Tainted fork crash on Win32

XP. AS811 (5.8.6) doesn't crash, AS817 (5.8.8) does. 

C:\TEST>perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall
Binary build 811 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Dec 13 2004 09:52:01

C:\AS817\perl\bin>perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
Binary build 817 [257965] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSta
+te.com
Built Mar 20 2006 17:54:25

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