On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Mohun Biswas wrote:

> See "perldoc perlfork" if you haven't.

Thanks for the pointer. Read that now.

> My experience is that, for basic fork/exec/wait functionality, it's solid in
> 5.8.* and less so if you still need to support 5.6.*. It actually works in
> 5.6.1 but a behavior I've observed[*] is that if the child "process" creates
> multiple subprocesses wait() gets mixed up and loses track of some children.

I use it very straight-forward and simply in my reworked test script: a fork()
followed by a plain exec() in the child. Hopefully this will work fine on
Windows too.

I've tested this version on Linux 2.6, Solaris 2.7, HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5 and
AIX 5.2. It seems to work fine.

This has now been committed.

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