Hi Perl Monks,

My requirement is to initiate multiple perl scripts , each residing in a different directory, as independent processes on a WINDOWS(2008) system, simultaneously. I have attempted to implement this using fork in the Cygwin environment.However, i end up with sequential execution of scripts rather than the simultaneous execution required.

The code is mentioned below for reference :

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use warnings;
use strict;

my @drive_dir = ('perl /a/dir_file_create.txt' , 'perl /b/dir_file_cre
+ate.txt', 'perl /c/dir_file_create.txt');

# Create a new process
my $proc_cmd = fork();

if (!defined $proc_cmd) {
    die "Unable to fork: $!";
}
elsif ($proc_cmd == 0){
# Child

        foreach my $create (@drive_dir){

                exec ("$create");
        }
    die "Unable to exec: $!" if $!;
}
else {
    # Parent
    print "\nThe process id is : $proc_cmd \n";
   
      kill 9,$proc_cmd;
   
    wait();
    print "Child exited with: ",$? >> 8,"\n";
}
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Thanks in advance.

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