What Perl version supports fork?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I get the following message when I call fork in my code, The Unsupported function fork function is unimplemented at forktest.pl line 3. Can anyone help me in this? Following is my code,

sub test
{
  unless(fork)
  {
      exec " "
  }
}
&test
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Re: Need help in fork by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 19, 2000 at 04:13 UTC
Your version of Perl doesn't support the fork function. You can upgrade to Perl 5.6 and this may fix it, especially if you're on a Win32 platform. See ActiveState for Win32 binaries.	[reply]
Re: Need help in fork by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2000 at 08:02 UTC
It did work, I was using wrong version(it was 5.3). Thanks for the info	[reply]

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