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and you're mixing threads with forks now ? is this good or bad , I can't tell
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Re^3: How to skip END blocks with threads?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 04, 2009 at 14:03 UTC
    and you're mixing threads with forks now?

    Under windows, they are the same thing!

    fork is emulated using threads.

    Besides which, the only reason I need to use threads, is to import the threads->exit call, which simply terminates the current thread (fork-emulation) without terminating the process as exit or POSIX::_exit() would.

    is this good or bad, I can't tell

    I'm no great lover of the fork emulation--is has too many caveats to be particular useful--once once you've chosen to go that route, you're already using threads implicitly, so importing the extra routine to achieve the goal just makes sense.

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