I am not familar with forking on Win32 - but here is a very simple script that demonstrates simple forking: 
print "My PID is $$\n";

my $child = fork();
# at this point, two scripts are executing simultaneously
# fork spawns a new copy of the script, and returns the
# process id of the parent to the parent, and 0 to the child

if ($child > 0) { # this is the original (the parent)
   print "Hello Parent (PID is $$)\n";
}
else { # this is the forked copy (the child)
   print "Hello Kid (PID is $$)\n";
}

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You can use getppid() inside the kid process to get the process ID of the parent if neccessary.

Hope this helps

jeffa

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Forked off! by jeffa
in thread Forked off! by larryk

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