Please rip the script to shreds

This subroutine is pointless.

You are invoking an external program via system in order to sleep, but you are adding a first argument of 1 to that call to system, which means the external program is run asynchronously and the subroutine returns immediately: 

sub take_nap {
    my $nap_duration = int rand $MAXIMUM_NAP_TIME;

    return system 1, "sleep $nap_duration";
}

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Why, when you want to create a delay, are you calling it asynchronously?

But, more to the point, why are you calling an external program in order to sleep, when perl has a built-in sleep?

(You are aware that using fork on Windows means you're actually not forking a process but spawning a thread don't you?)

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In reply to Re^7: Please Explain the Parallel::ForkManager Idiom my $pid = $pm->start and next; by BrowserUk
in thread Please Explain the Parallel::ForkManager Idiom my $pid = $pm->start and next; by Jim

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