Apparently that is the problem, I updated the code with die and I get:
Can't fork: Resource temporarily unavailable at testfork1.pl line 14.

There must be some sort of limit. My system is ActivePerl 5.8.3, Win XP SP2. I am unsure how to check or change the ability of my system to create child processes, but it looks like that might be the problem. It is interesting that I did not run into this with the code that had children creating children?

zejames, out of curiousity, what times did you get when running the code?

Thanks all for your quick and correct insight to my prob.

Cameron

In reply to Re^2: Uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) after 65 iteration of a loop using fork?!? by doowah2004
in thread Uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) after 65 iteration of a loop using fork?!? by doowah2004

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