> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:22:34 -0500, bill stennett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am having trouble with a script that trys to fork a new process. The > >script was OK on unix but I need it on Windows NT4 (SP6a). Is the fork() > >command available under NT4. I think I read somewhere that it was not > >implemented under windows 95/98 but under NT? > > > >Maybe my problem is somewhere else but if anyone can confirm the above it > >would be really useful. > > fork() emulation is available on Win32 in Perl 5.6.0. It should work in > ActivePerl 5.6 build 6xx. However there is a bug (design flaw actually) > in the regular expression engine that makes it not-threadsafe when a > variable is interpolated into the pattern, e.g. /$mypattern/ > > -Jan Using semafores to make sure only one thread uses the regexp engine at any moment would be enough? Are there some other not-threadsafe things? Jenda == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.McCann.cz == 28th of March I'll march out of the "army" I'll be free so if you want me ... _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activeperl
