SPUG: Re: FTP Problems
Brian Ingerson
briani at activestate.com
Sun Oct 15 22:03:19 CDT 2000
Richard Anderson wrote:
> Perl's fork function did not work on Windows as of last year, but
> ActiveState
> has been working on this. Check their latest release - it may be fixed.
Perl supports fork emulation on Windows as of 5.6.0. Read 'perldoc
perlfork', the top of which is shown below:
NAME
perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
SYNOPSIS
Perl provides a fork() keyword that corresponds to the
Unix system call of the same name. On most Unix-like
platforms where the fork() system call is available,
Perl's fork() simply calls it.
On some platforms such as Windows where the fork() system
call is not available, Perl can be built to emulate fork()
at the interpreter level. While the emulation is designed
to be as compatible as possible with the real fork() at
the the level of the Perl program, there are certain
important differences that stem from the fact that all the
pseudo child "processes" created this way live in the same
real process as far as the operating system is concerned.
This document provides a general overview of the
capabilities and limitations of the fork() emulation.
Note that the issues discussed here are not applicable to
platforms where a real fork() is available and Perl has
been configured to use it.
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