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Re: [FWP] Drunk driving



On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 04:30:04PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> > forking doesn't work with perls that don't fork.
> I may be mistaken, but a perusal of the configuration scripts for
> early Perls suggests that *every* Perl either forks or supports
> `formline()', so that this objection is void. 

There was an Amiga port of Perl 4, IIRC, and Amigas don't support forking
(no memory management).

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org

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