[misterhouse-users] Windows fork equiv?

[Neil C. <nc...@co...>]

I'm beginning to write a program and function that allows me to kill, clean
up, and restart a hung MH. It has to either be an independent thread or
a separate program that monitors the 'health' of MH (a software watchdog).

What methods, available to *nix & Windows, are there available for Inter
Process Communication & for starting external programs? I'm going to check
my Perl books (especially for the IPC part) for this kind of info.

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