Here the output on the failing system :

perl -e 'use forks; print system("ping -c1 localhost"),"\n$?\n";print 
+$! if ($?==-1)'<br/>

PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=0 time
+=0.036 ms

--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.036/0.036/0.036/0.000 ms, pipe 2
-1
-1
No child processes

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In reply to Re^2: bad ping status with the forks module by erc_fun
in thread bad ping status with the forks module by Anonymous Monk

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