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Nigel Sandever wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:57:30 -0700, larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote: > > >>On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote: >>: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:29:33PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >>: To take a notorious example, you mentioned fork() -- if this event manager >>: becomes part of Perl6, does that mean we're required to emulate fork() >>: on win32? >> >>Perl 5 manages it, and Perl 6 is expected to emulate Perl 5 when fed >>Perl 5 code. It's one of the reasons Parrot is aiming to support an >>ithreads model in some fashion or other, I expect. But it's okay if >>the Pugs interpreter punts on this for now. >> >If the only reason for using the ithreads model is to allow fork() to be >emulated using the same mechanism as is used in P5 -- please don't. > > I'll second that. While each version of p5 makes progress towards fork() on Win32 being moderately useful, I still find that only reliable way to do automated multi-processing is to whip out Win32::Process and start a new interpreter with special "I'm a child process" arguments. -- Rod AdamsThread Previous