if all you need is passing a boolean ok value from the child to the parent, in Parallel::ForkManager you can use the run_on_finish callback to get the exit code of the child.

As I am the author of Proc::Queue let me use that module instead... 

use Proc::Queue size => 10;

sub whatEver {
  my $list = shift;
  my (%pid, %result);

  foreach my $query (keys %$list) {
    my $pid = fork;
    defined $pid or die "fork failed";
    if (!$pid) {
      my $ok = do_whatever();
      exit (!$ok);
    }
    else {
      $pid{$query} = $pid;
    }
  }
  for my $query (keys %pid) {
    if (waitpid($pid{$query}, 0) > 0) {
      $result{$query} = ! $?
    }
  }
  print Dumper("2", \%result);
}

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In reply to Re: Parallel::ForkManager problem by salva
in thread Parallel::ForkManager problem by Murcia

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