You could waitpid() in parent and then check the return value stored in $? 
my $pid = fork();
die "Can't fork() : $!\n" unless defined $pid;
if ($pid){
   if (waitpid($pid, 0) > 0);
      my ($rc, $sig, $core) = ($? >> 8, $? & 127, $? & 128);
      if ($core){
         print "$pid dumped core\n";
      }elsif($sig == 9){
         print "$pid was murdered!\n";
      }else{
        print "$pid returned $rc";
        print ($sig?" after receiving signal $sig":"\n");
      }
   }else{
      print "$pid... um... disappeared...\n";
   }
}else{
   unless (run_code()){
      exit 1;
   }
   exit 0;
}

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In reply to Re: Perl IPC: Checking Exit Status of Child Process by perlplexer
in thread Perl IPC: Checking Exit Status of Child Process by bayruds

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