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Hej Marshall,

I had similar experiences a year ago with the emulation of fork in Windows (Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1).

Running the tests of Test::TCP (version 1.11 and 1.12) on Windows resulted often in a blocking Perl interpreter. Sometimes the system reached at state, that it must be restarted.

I started trying to isolate the problem and this is so far I came: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=66016#txn-910155.

My experiences/conclusion using perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation in Windows, are:

The questions which worries me are: