I have a solution, but it requires making a couple of changes to Parallel::ForkManager.

Solution:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Parallel::ForkManager qw( );

my @data = (
   ...
);

my @tasks = (
   sub { printf("%s\n",                 $_[0]); },
   sub { exec('/home/working/perl1.pl', $_[0]); },
   sub { exec('/home/perl2.pl',         $_[0]); },
);

{
   my $task_id;
   my @idle = (0..$#tasks);
   my %alloc;

   my $pm = Parallel::ForkManager->new(scalar(@tasks));

   $pm->run_pre_fork(sub {
      $task_id = shift(@idle);
   });

   $pm->run_on_start(sub {
      my ($pid) = @_;
      $alloc{$pid} = $task_id;
   });

   $pm->run_on_finish(sub {
      my ($pid) = @_;
      push(@idle, delete($alloc{$pid}));
   });

   foreach my $data (@data) {
      my $pid = $pm->start and next;
      $tasks[$task_id]->($data);
      $pm->finish;
   }
}
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Changes to site/lib/Parallel/ForkManager.pm:

• Change

    $s->wait_children;
    if ($s->{max_proc}) {
      my $pid=fork();
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  in start to

    $s->wait_children;
    $s->pre_fork;
    if ($s->{max_proc}) {
      my $pid=fork();
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• Add

  sub run_pre_fork { my ($s,$code)=@_;
    $s->{pre_fork}=$code;
  }
  
  sub pre_fork { my ($s)=@_;
    $s->{pre_fork}->() if ref($s->{pre_fork}) eq 'CODE';
  }
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