Perl threads and libwww wierdness

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

2012/1/18 Peter Vereshagin <peter at vereshagin.org>:
> Just don't 'use threads;', that's all :)
>
> The only exception is the cygwin's use of native ms-windows threads behind its
> forks emulation, including cygwin's perl.

Unless things have changed since I last used it, cygwin uses real
processes for forks.  It's ActiveState's perl (and presumably the
mingw perl too) that emulates fork with threads.