Hi,
I am having trouble with this script in windows, where I am forking off close to 10 processes, and then trying to capture their output. The code works fine on UNIX, but hangs on windows. Please Help. Thanks. 


for (my $i=0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $pid = fork;
    if ($pid == 0) {

        my $dir_cmd = "dir";
        my @output = `$dir_cmd`;

        exit 1;
    } elsif ( defined ($pid) ) {
            # parent
            $process_count++;
            push(@pids,$pid);
            print "job $pid forked \n";

    } else {
        # fork error

        print "fork failed with code $pid n";
        exit 1;
    }
}

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