in reply to Reaping Zombies (dont wanna wait)
Apprently your system doewsn't support $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'
The parent needs to do a wait() or a waitpid() on the child. There are non-bloking ways to do this, I think.
perldoc perlipc gives information on this.
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