Help with an ithread implementation question

Hi all,

I have been looking forward to iThreads for some time, but never had the
chance to look at them until now.

I am a Win32er, so I don't have the normal experience that most folks do
with fork(), so bear with my question ;-)

I have a Tk program that calls Win32::Process::Create to spawn off
commands and then I use a socket to send the data back to the parent.

This far far too slow to be workable...creating processes on Win32 is slow.

I would like to create 1 Win32::Process (child) and then send it commands,
which it would in turn create a new iThread to handle each request and then
use the main socket connection to the parent...(each iThread would likely be
making a system call, which would then *really* be a thread in the main
Win32 .exe)


For the child process via fork():
The docs say the state of the interpreter is cloned because "normal" fork()
works this way, do I want a fork(); exec(); ???

But the docs state that exec() spawns a Win32::Process...

Is there a way around this?  I really am stuck w/o something much faster!

Can I do a single forkexec() ?

thanks!


BTW, I read the long discussions on the other news groups about iThreads,
and I think the only thing wrong is maybe the name.  Having worked at a
few big companies, the name really affects people's perceptions and I have
had a project killed because of the confusion that resulted...Just change it
for 5.8.1 (easier now than 9.x ;-)  [just my .02]