Elian++, I agree actually, I don't want to see fork and
alarm go away. I want to see them working on Win32
(and VMS, and MacOS for that matter), even if they only
work because they are emulated by the virtual machine
on those platforms.
Having said that, if there could be a way of achieving the
functionality without using specific OS calls, that would
be 'better', wouldn't it? (in the sense that it would be
more portable, therefore a wider base of happy Perl users)
And if it really can't be done, I want to see the documentation for tasks that use these functions give Win32 equivalents or just
admit that it can't be done in Win32. I find it very
frustrating following code from a textbook or standard
document only to find that it doesn't work (or works
buggily). (Yes, you could say that someone
could submit patches for documentation: maybe, though
this would require some life-priority task realignment...)
Cheerio!
Osfameron
http://osfameron.perlmonk.org/chickenman