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in thread Windows fork problem or my ignorance?

Thanks! That solved some of the problem, at least the non-printing portion of it. However, when I run it against the range 10.0.1.25..30, I get this:

C:\Scripts\Parallel>ping_parallel.pl
-4012 is processing 10.0.1.025
-3148 is processing 10.0.1.026
reaping -4012 for 10.0.1.025
reaping -3148 for 10.0.1.026
10.0.1.025 is good
10.0.1.026 is good

## This one finished

C:\Scripts\Parallel>ping_parallel.pl
-2808 is processing 10.0.1.025
-3424 is processing 10.0.1.026
-2532 is processing 10.0.1.027
-3360 is processing 10.0.1.028
-696 is processing 10.0.1.029
-4036 is processing 10.0.1.030
reaping -2808 for 10.0.1.025
reaping -3424 for 10.0.1.026
reaping -2532 for 10.0.1.027
reaping -3360 for 10.0.1.028
reaping -696 for 10.0.1.029

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and sits here. I know that .27 - .30 are not up. Any idea why it sits there?

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Re^3: Windows fork problem or my ignorance?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 21, 2008 at 22:56 UTC

    I can reproduce the problem. wait never returns. Looks like a bug in Perl. Fortunately, it appears to be fixed in 5.10.0.

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    Maybe it had to do with `` using wait as well. On unix, that wouldn't be a problem since the two calls to wait happen in different processes. The pseudo-processes fork creates on Windows are just threads, so the two calls to wait happen in the same process.

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