Comments on: Reliable Windows Software Without Fork

By: ephemient

ephemient — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:03:53 +0000

Searching Google for “NtCreateProcess fork”, you’ll find a few references to Gary Nebbett’s “Windows NT/2000 native API reference”, which does implement fork() in an example.

In short, it’s easy to fork an NT process. Making the fork a usable Win32 process is a bit more involved, not documented, and probably fragile from OS release to OS release, but is possible.

An example implementation of exec() is also provided in the book, with similar caveats.

By: Christian Walde

Christian Walde — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:04:03 +0000

I’m not *entirely* sure that i understand what you’re asking here in the first place. However, as far as creating daemons on windows goes, this is probably the easiest way to do it:

http://search.cpan.org/~mithaldu/Win32-Detached-1.103080/lib/Win32/Detached.pm

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:23:20 +0000

Hi xdg,

Spawning processes is only part of what I need, but thanks for the pointer to Win32::Job. Previously I used Win32::Process which is a bit more fiddly.

By: dagolden

dagolden — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:17:50 +0000

If you're just spawning external programs, see Win32::Job. For less control, "system(1, $cmd, @args)" works, too. See docs for "system" in perlport.