Would like some explanation about how Parallel:ForkManager module works. Suppose I have the following: my $manager = new Parallel::ForkManager( 20 ); foreach my $command (@commands) { $manager->start and next; system( $command ); $manager->finish; }; From what I understand, the "$manager->start" does the fork and "and next" goes to another $command in @command array (correct me if I am wrong there). Does it mean that I would have 20 child processes where each child would run "system($command)" for each $command in the array, right? And the parent is not going to run any of those "system($command)", right? What would the parent process do then? There is a problem I am having with ForkManager, but I first need to clarify that I understand how ForkManager works. Thank you.

In reply to help with Parallel:ForkManager by arthurs

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