people just prefer to fork and use the well baked IPC mechanisms Ahh, that makes sense. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of perl code runs on *nix sys

people just prefer to fork and use the well baked IPC mechanisms Ahh, that makes sense. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of perl code runs on *nix systems (I know that with the exception of one app, all the perl I've ever written was only run on linux servers).