cygwin fork problem maybe?

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote:
> A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle 
> files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February
> is still a problem.  I bounced it off of the module maintainer, and he
> believes the problem has to do with "forking", not FIFO use.
> 
> His test works under AS Perl, but he doesn't think he'll be able to
> get his module to work under cygwin with these problems.

Can he or you reduce the problem to a non-File::BOM dependent test script?

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