Because the $cnt variable is incremented in the child, it won't effect the parent (as they're two separate processes). So you can either increment before forking and hope the children are processed in the order they were forked (quite likely in your case), or get the child processes to communicate back to the parent process the incrementing of $cnt (or even have the CHLD handler increment it). See. perlipc for more info on the latter option and kill for passing about signals.

As for the and next the docs say

The "and next" skips the internal loop in the parent process.
So without it you don't move onto the next child process (if my thinking is correct).
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Odd Parallel::ForkManager behavior by broquaint
in thread Odd Parallel::ForkManager behavior by hacker

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