Thanks NetWallah for the debug information, now I have something to start with.

I changed the tie() variable to a simple scalar, so that it will be go through shareable, and tested again, the following code, almost exactly the same as before, works with no problems. So I guess the problem is really in Shareable.
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::MMF;
use Win32::MMF::Shareable;

if( fork )
{
  my $ns = tie( my $share, 'Win32::MMF::Shareable', 'share' ) || die;
  sleep(1);
  $share = 'PARENT';
}
else
{
  my $ns = tie( my $share, 'Win32::MMF::Shareable', 'share' ) || die;
  $share = 'CHILD';
}

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Now the question comes down to why Storable is causing Perl to crash? Is the Storable module thread safe? Is there a thread safe alternative?

Update:
I have tried BrowserUk's suggestion and the problem seems to have gone away. I am currently investigating on why having require in each process after fork cures the problem.

In reply to Re: Re: Perl forking and shared memory strangeness under Windows by Roger
in thread Perl forking and shared memory strangeness under Windows by Roger

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