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You could do this in a variety of ways, depending on how ugly you want it to get. ;)

- Open a pipe to the child process and make child report its status via the pipe
- Create a file and make the child process write its status to this file (probably the most portable)
- Use shared memory; e.g., IPC::Shareable::*
- Sockets

--perlplexer

Update: fixed a typo
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