Update -- zombie processes never die... See fork man page for details...

my $pid = fork();
  if ($pid ==0)
    {
      unless(fork){ 
      print "Child launched!\n";
      exec"/bin/sleep 10"; # server process
      exit 0;
      }
      exit 0;
    }
  waitpid($pid,0);
      $pid=$pid+1; // cheating process ids are 1+ what we think they a
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      print "Child PID: $pid\n";
      push @pidArray, $pid;
}
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Thanks guys!

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Zak
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