hi all

These days I am learning perl by writing simple perl programs. I have done lot of system side programing using fork in 'C' language. So I have enough knowledge on fork and its behaviour.
I am wondering the behaviour of fork, when I use it with perl. I might have not understood the fork concepts properly in perl.
definitely monks can explain me better. Here is my code 

fork || print for split (//, "a" x 10);

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Output :- 
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
+aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaa1a11aaa1aaa1aaa11a1aaaaaa111a1a11a11a1a111aaa1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
+aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
+aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1aaa1a1a1aaaaaaaaaaaa11aaaaaa1a111a1a1a1aaa11aa1a11a
+111a111aaa
1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1aa1a1a1111a111aaaaaaaaaa11aaaaaaaaaa
+a11111a1aa
a1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1a11111aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa11aaaaaaaaaa
+aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa

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Output prints some '1's in between 'a'.
could anyone explain me what is happening with the code ?

"Keep pouring your ideas"

In reply to strange behaviour when forking lots of times by jesuashok

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