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Changes for version 0.15

  • Just got too much mail from people attempting to use forks.pm on Windows. Decided to add check for Win32 to Makefile.PL to have it die when attempting to run on Windows. Added documentation to explain this.

Modules

drop-in replacement for Perl threads using fork()
drop-in replacement for Perl threads::shared with forks()
default class for tie-ing arrays to threads with forks
default class for tie-ing handles to threads with forks
default class for tie-ing hashes to threads with forks
default class for tie-ing scalars to threads with forks

Provides

in lib/forks.pm
in lib/forks/shared.pm