> >
> > No, but given that a lot of work has been put into ithreads in V5.8
> > to make threading platform-independent (or at least functional on
> > Windows) I'm surprised that a language feature like this hasn't been
> > implemented. As well as that I can see nowhere in the docs
> > where it mentions the lack of Windows support for this feature.
> > I suppose it could be dependent on the options enabled in the Perl
> > build, which are fixed for ActivePerl because it is a binary
> > distribution. I'd be interested to hear if anybody has any
> > knowledge in this area.
>
> I do believe you can fork a child with an open in Win, but i
> am not sure if
> it was just a matter of syntax or something else. I am going
> to research
> this a bit.
I just test ran the below and it worked fine. I am running Win2k Pro, AS
Perl 5.6.1 build 630:
code adapted from the perlipd doc
--
$parent = $$;
print "parent: $parent\n";
$pid = open(STATUS, "netstat -an 2>&1 |") || die "can't fork: $!";
while (<STATUS>) {
#next if /^(tcp|udp)/i;
}
print "child: $pid\n";
close STATUS || die "bad netstat: $! $?";
---
prints:
C:\test>perl test1.pl
parent: 1792
child: 1648
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