BTW another thing I realized while looking this over, is that we quite
uselessly transform the integer backend type to a string, pass it as a
string using the --forkchild= argument to the child process, then parse
the string back to an int to use as an array index. It would be much
easier to just use the integer value everywhere, as the attached shows.
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