Thanks!

I was confused about fork I have to admit, and I believed that if I did this:

if($child = fork){
return 0;
}elsif(defined $child){...}
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then the child process would never be reached.

Your solution worked, but i can't help wondering, seeing how I'm a bit dumb with forks, would the above code work in the same way?

BTW, not to be picky, but you missed an equal sign in

if($child = 0){
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:-P

cheers

S