Fork doesn't work in Win32, it might in the future. Depending upon you needs, you can spawn off a process and have that process communicate back to you main program. You can use a file, use IP Sockets, Pipes, memory map files, etc.
Depends upon you needs... >From: "Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Multithreading in Perl ??? >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:54:03 +0100 > >On 20.12.01 at 10:48 Simon Oliver wrote: > >ActivePerl 6.30 uses a simulated fork for multithreading. > >When do you use this simulated fork and when do you use Win32::Process? >What's the difference? > >I was trying to do simultaneous FTP connections with Net::FTP, but >didn't get very far using fork. > >Marcus > > >_______________________________________________ >Perl-Win32-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
