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<p>I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that Perl would opt for the POSIX api, even emulating it where the native was (by my definition:) better--but I was.
<p>What still surprises me is that POSIX still specifies a less useful default behaviour.
<p>Thanks for telling me about the <code>system( 1, ... ) </code> trick. Is that documented somewhere?
<p>I've been using <code> use threads qw[async]; async{ system ...; };</code> for that for a while now, but that is nice if not portable.
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