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There is no built-in `fork` function. While it's possible to call it using
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NativeCall, it's highly unlikely that the resulting process will be usable.
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Perl 6 provides extensive support for, and internally uses, threads. However,
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Perl 6 provides extensive support for, and internally uses, threads. However,
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`fork` only clones the thread that called `fork`, resulting in a process that
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will be missing its other threads, which will have been in unknown states and
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probably holding locks. Even if a Perl 6 program doesn't knowingly start any
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probably holding locks. Even if a Perl 6 program doesn't knowingly start any
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threads, the compiler may create some of its own in the process of precompilation,
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and the VMs that Perl 6 runs on also create their own internal worker threads for
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and the VMs that Perl 6 runs on also create their own internal worker threads for
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doing things like optimization and GC in the background. Thus, the presence of
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threads is pretty much assured, and there's no reasonable way to make `fork`
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reliably work in this case.

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