Hi

even I got the same error on windows 2000.

C:\Documents and Settings\antony\Desktop>perl -e "sub { @_ = sub {@_}-
+>(@_); for
k ? die 5 : die 6 }->(2)"
5 at -e line 1.
6 at -e line 1.
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In perl bug lists, there are lot of bugs registered with regard to Fork
You can check the following also Tainted fork crash on Win32