Is there a way to run parallel forks without using a loop or using Parallel::Fork::BossWorker? So I tried just using fork(), but that doesn't allow running forks in parallel. Next was Parallel::ForkManager, which wouldn't allow me to fork unless I was inside a loop of some sort. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see the importance of having this as an arbitrary limitation. Last I tried Parallel::Fork::BossWorker which worked but doesn't seem to allow me to fork a subroutine and store the return values in a variable. I just want to fork the subroutines and store the return values in a hash. Here's a simplified example of my code.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
no warnings "uninitialized";
use Parallel::Fork::BossWorker

my $data = "a";


my $fork_sub1 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub1
+);
my $fork_sub2 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub2
+);
my $fork_sub3 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub3
+);
my $fork_sub4 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub4
+);
my $fork_sub5 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub5
+);
my $fork_sub6 = Parallel::Fork::BossWorker->new(work_handler => \&sub6
+);

$fork_sub1->add_work({data => "a"});
$fork_sub2->add_work({data => "a"});
$fork_sub3->add_work({data => "a"});
$fork_sub4->add_work({data => "a"});
$fork_sub5->add_work({data => "a"});
$fork_sub6->add_work({data => "a"});

$fork_sub1->process();
$fork_sub2->process();
$fork_sub3->process();
$fork_sub4->process();
$fork_sub5->process();
$fork_sub6->process();




sub sub1 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 1\n";

return(0);
}

sub sub2 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 2\n";

return(0);
}
sub sub3 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 3\n";

return(0);
}
sub sub4 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 4\n";

return(0);
}
sub sub5 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 5\n";

return(0);
}
sub sub6 {

my $variable = shift @_; 
print "sub 6\n";

return(0);
}
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