I am having an issue with Fork in Perl. I want to execute 10 Fork Processes at a go from one single script and all 10 Child (Forked) processes will do the same thing (Copy files from one place to another). 
 while ($callCount <= $totalCalls) { 
  for (1..$TotalProcessToFork) { 
          print "Call -> $callCount"; 
          if($pid = fork) { 
              #in Parent Process 
              print " :: PID -> $pid\n"; 
              push(@list_of_pid, $pid); 
          } else { 
              #in Child Process 
              `touch $callCount`; 
          } 
          $callCount++; 
      } 
  }

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Now when I execute this code, there are around 1000 child processed which are executed. Can any one tell me what wrong I am doing here.

In reply to Fork Results in thousands of processes by anshumangoyal

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