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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
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On 2/21/06, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAICS, it does not exist. There is emulation of it in that active-perl,
> though so this works:
>
>     if ( !fork ) { something }
>
> but not "too well" (you have to be carefule not spawn too many (which
> is around 50) processes. Perl'll crash otherwise).

IIRC this has to do with some child-process thread limits in Windows.

--
Windows, the multi-thrashing OS.