Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

On 2/21/06, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

AFAICS, it does not exist. There is emulation of it in that active-perl,
though so this works:

    if ( !fork ) { something }

but not "too well" (you have to be carefule not spawn too many (which
is around 50) processes. Perl'll crash otherwise).

IIRC this has to do with some child-process thread limits in Windows.

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Windows, the multi-thrashing OS.