Greetings,

I'm trying to write a test program for an irc bot. My plan is to create a second bot, have the two bots talk to each other, and then check the results. So, I wrote some test code to start each bot and run them toether for a brief amount of time. It seems that rather than running in parallel the bots run in sequence. What have a done wrong or is there a better way?

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

fork_bot({ bot => './cfbot.pm --debug', runtime => 60 });
fork_bot({ bot => './cfbot_tester.pm',  runtime => 20 });


sub fork_bot {
   my ( $arg ) = @_;
   my $pid = fork();

   if ( $pid == 0 ){
      exec( $arg->{bot} )
         or croak "Cannot start [$arg->{bot}] [$!]";
   }
   else{
      sleep $arg->{runtime};
      kill 1, $pid or croak "Cannot kill pid [$pid]";
   }
   return;
}
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