I'm currently writting a program that needs to read messages from a sysV MQ, and read from a pipe. After receiving the messages, there are several different tasks that the program needs to do. Here's a process flow. 
Wait for message from MQ or pipe{
    if message eq a{
        fork with pipe(parent exits block)
        child does X
        child tells parent results
        child dies
    }
    if message eq b{
        run sub
    }
}

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The majority of those tasks involve forking a new process. I'd also like to keep track of which children are currently running. I haven't really used POE before (or even looked at it much). So I was wondering if it would be useful in this situation, or if I should just stick to what I've always done?

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