use strict; use warnings; use MCE::Shared; tie my @data, 'MCE::Shared'; if ( ! defined ( my $pid = fork() ) ) { die "Cannot fork!: $!"; } elsif ( $pid == 0 ) { # Child my $item; sleep 1; for ( my $i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++ ) { $item = shift @data; $item = '' if ( ! defined $item ); print "Child: $item\n"; } } else { # Parent for ( my $i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++ ) { push @data, $i; print "Parent: @data\n"; } waitpid( $pid, 0 ); }