in reply to Could not catch all children after fork, some of them never end

No, the implementation of fork in Perl is somewhat of a pseudo-implementation with quite a few caveats.   Do a super-search on signal to read some threads which wound-down just a few days ago.

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Re^2: Could not catch all children after fork, some of them never end
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2013 at 02:24 UTC

    No, the implementation of fork in Perl is somewhat of a pseudo-implementation with quite a few caveats. Do a super-search on signal to read some threads which wound-down just a few days ago.

    That answer is too lazy to be useful, and its wrong to boot -- typical