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<p>I know very little about threads but it strikes me that this problem is better suited to <code>fork</code><br>
(assuming this is on a *IX OS)</p>
<p><b>edit</b></p>
<p>I've just reread the original question and it's Strawberry Perl which I believe implements <code>fork</code> with threads</p>
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