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in reply to Re^2: start up process without waiting
in thread start up process without waiting

While there is no fork() system call on Windows, your version of perl was likely built to emulate it using threads; thus the code I provided will work -- and was, in fact, tested on a Windows XP machine. See fork, perlfork and/or fork in perlport.


#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.