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Re: [MacPerl] What a forking pain...



Anthony Eden <aeden@mail.vcn.net> writes:
>I don't suppose there will ever be a way to do forking in MacPerl?

Not with System 7 and almost certainly not with System 8.

>Is there a way to simulate this?

In most specific cases, yes (with select() and temporary files), but not in the
general case.

Matthias

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