in reply to Re: Managing a long running server side process using CGI
in thread Managing a long running server side process using CGI

I don't know how the Windows folks spawn their child processes

Win32::Job provides a high-level interface for controlling sub-processes. More low-level is Win32::Process. And there is also system(1, $program, @args) for something that is more akin to a fork/exec on unix.

-xdg

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