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I'm no expert, but fork and perlfork talk at length about not to use kill on children when fork was emulated.

There are various alternatives listed in perlipc though.

An SSCCE with tests might help provide alternatives.

> If I just use Win32::Process, then this would be a dependency also on Linux

I'm quite sure that you can have install dependencies based on the actual OS. Never tried this tho.

HTH. :)

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