I am new to perl and I was wondering what the following code does. Will this fork+socketpair works in perl windows environment. I need to write the same code in windows.
Is there any effective/alternative way I can do the same in windows?
May I know why it wont work in windows env?
The following is the code, Any help would be appreciated,Thanks..

if ($^O eq 'MSWin') {
    print("\nrunning directly from Windows is not supported -- Install
+ Cygwin\n\n");
        exit(1);
    }
   
    my ($IO_FLAGS, $OS_MSWIN);
    
    BEGIN {
        ($IO_FLAGS, $OS_MSWIN) = (0, FALSE);

        # set any linux default values
        my $isWindows = FALSE;
        my $ioFlags   = 0x00005421;

        if ($^O =~ m/win/i) {
        
            # change to win32 values
            $isWindows  = TRUE;
            $ioFlags    = 0x8004667e;

        }
$processes=2;

my $pid = fork(); 
for (my $i = 1; $i <= $processes; $i++)
    {

        my($child,$parent);

        socketpair($child,$parent,AF_UNIX,SOCK_STREAM,PF_UNSPEC)
            or die 'socketpair creation failure: '.$!;

        my $pid;
        if ($pid = fork) {
            close($parent);

            my @ary=(1);                       
# non-blocking IO, compare to blocking "my @ary=(0);"
            my $val=pack("L",@ary);             
                                                 
            ioctl($child, $IO_FLAGS, $val);

            
# we now have another child! we'll poll these later
            push @children, [ $child, $pid ];
            push @pids, $pid;

          } else {
            debug 'child starting';
            close($child);

            # kick off the child process
            childProcess($parent);

            close($parent);
            exit();
        }
    }
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