From: Ron Parker <rdparker@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:13:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <1cf1c57a0602211413n22e77fd0l4e2846e7feb5429e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1cf1c57a0602211412r1988b14ao435edd29207dc0d0@mail.gmail.com>

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.

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Windows, the multi-thrashing OS.