title: fork implementation in perl
body: <p>I want to execute a child process in perl. I also want my code to be platform independent (same for windows as well as unix, except some glitches like filepath etc.).</p>
  
  <p>The problem is perl implementation of fork in windows, is a pseudo-process, actually a thread. Please refer to the perl fork emulation for windows <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfork.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>It also mentions about problems in executing <code>kill</code> and <code>exec</code> commands on pseudo-processes. Would it be safe to use two different version of fork for different platforms or should I go with OS specific APIs?</p>