in reply to Detecting fork events in a module?

if you're on a linux box, then there's a $SIG{CHLD} to watch out for. see perldoc -f fork and perldoc perlipc
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Re^2: Detecting fork events in a module?
by Anno (Deacon) on Aug 02, 2007 at 09:35 UTC
    The SIGCHLD signal exists on all Unix systems, not only Linux (and Perl probably emulates it on others), but it is issued when a child exits, not when it is created. The OP wants to "detect fork events" which appears to require the latter.

    Anno

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