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Tony Cook
Date:
February 17, 2015 10:58
Subject:
Re: [perl #123775] Args to 'system' not evaluated before forking,making $$ wrong
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20150217105733.GH15359@mars.tony.develop-help.com
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 09:23:51AM -0800, Chris Wagner via RT wrote:
> On Sat Feb 14 17:10:11 2015, LeonT wrote:
> > I would still expect that to run into pseudothreads on Windows, but I
> > haven't tested either version on Windows yet.
> > 
> > Leon
> 
> The problem on Windows is likely masked by the pseudo-fork.  It prints the "right pid".  I verified that two Perl processes get made with the right pids in TaskInfo.

system() on Win32 doesn't use fork() of any sort.

Tony
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