Below, am showing a way using MCE::Loop and calling MCE->gather.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use Time::Piece;
use Cwd qw( abs_path );
use File::Basename;
use File::Basename qw( dirname );
use LWP::Simple;
use MCE::Loop chunk_size => 1, max_workers => 5;
use Date::Calc qw (Delta_Days);
use Data::Dumper;

my $domains = dirname(abs_path($0)).'/domains.txt';
my $flag = 0;
my $date = strftime "%Y-%m-%d", localtime;
my %month = ( 'jan'=>'01','feb'=>'02','mar'=>'03','apr'=>'04','may'=>'
+05','jun'=>'06','jul'=>'07','aug'=>'08','sep'=>'09','oct'=>'10','nov'
+=>'11','dec'=>'12' );

my %domainList = mce_loop_f {
    # my ($mce, $chunk_ref, $chunk_id) = @_;
    # $_ is the same as $chunk_ref->[0] for chunk_size => 1
    my $domainName = $_;
    chomp $domainName;
    print $domainName."\n";
    my $expDate = `jwhois -n -h whois.crsnic.net $domainName | grep Ex
+piration | awk '{print \$3}'`;
    print $expDate;
    my $diff = &dateDiff($expDate);

    if ($diff < 28 and $diff > 14) { $flag = 1; }
    elsif ($diff <= 14) { $flag = 2; }

    MCE->gather($domainName, $diff);
} $domains;

print Dumper(\%domainList);

...

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That enables parallelism and MCE->gather(...) to pass data back to the hash variable residing under the manager process. MCE::Loops (mce_loop_f) opens the $domains file. The 5 workers persist while running (think of a 5 worker pool). Thus, 5 forks, not more.

In reply to Re: Creating a hash within a fork by marioroy
in thread Creating a hash within a fork by edimusrex

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