Hey, i've just joined perl monks and I don't know if this is the right area to place my question but here it goes: I've been trying to play with Parallel::ForkManager to fork a program i wrote, I've been playing around with sample forkmanager code as follows:

use strict;
use Parallel::ForkManager;

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

my $max_procs = 5;
my @names = qw( Fred Jim Lily Steve );
# hash to resolve PID's back to child specific information
  
my $pm =  new Parallel::ForkManager($max_procs);

# Setup a callback for when a child finishes up so we can
# get it's exit code
$pm->on_finish(
  sub { my ($pid, $exit_code, $ident) = @_;
    print "** $ident just got out of the pool <br>".
    "with PID $pid and exit code: $exit_code<br>\n";
  }
);
$pm->on_start(
  sub {
    my ($pid,$ident)=@_;
    print "** $ident started, pid: $pid<br>\n";
  }
);
$pm->on_wait(
  sub {
    print "** Have to wait for one children ...<br>\n"
  }
);
foreach my $child (0 .. $#names ) {
  my $pid = $pm->start($names[$child]) and next;

  # This code is the child process
  print "This is $names[$child], Child number $child<br>\n";
  # sleep ( 2 * $child );
  print "$names[$child], Child $child is about to get out...<br>\n";
  sleep 1;

  # pass an exit code to finish
  $pm->finish($child);
}
print "Waiting for Children...<br>\n";
$pm->wait_all_childs;
print "Everybody is out of the pool!<br>\n";
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When i try out this program it seems like none of the children are exiting at all...Any ideas on why it would be doing so? I'm quite confused and finally found Parallel::ForkManger, does anyone have comments on it or have better modules to use when playing with fork()? I appreciate your time fellow monks.