What you do wrong? You don't have $| on, so the output is buffered.

Also, your code executes very shortly. Too short to reliably state which comes first.

Let the run for a while longer. Use else to have the child and parent run side by side. 

$| = 1;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);  # allows sleep in fractions of seconds
if(fork){
    foreach my $i (1 .. 10) {
        print "I am the parent\n";
        sleep 1;
    }
    print "parent exiting now.\n";
}
else {
    foreach my $i (1 .. 30) {
        print "I am the child\n";
        sleep 0.3;
    }
    print "Bye.\n";
}

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In reply to Re: How to run the child process parellel to the parent process with fork by bart
in thread How to run the child process parellel to the parent process with fork by srlbharu

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