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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
October 17, 2003 06:27
Subject:
Re: Detecting fork() emulation
Message ID:
20031017132637.2510.5@llama.elixent.com
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes:
>Question for the Win32 folks.  If Win32 Perl is compiled with fork()
>emulation, is $Config{d_fork} set?

No - I seem to recall that d_fork became something in config.h which 
turned on some things that are not well emulated yet.

(Now we have pseudo-fork a bunch of things like 

 open(FH,"-|")

and other pipe-and-fork things could be done on Win32

). 


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