in reply to Re^4: Running a process in the background
in thread Running a process in the background

undef == 0 - use defined instead: 
if (my $pid = fork) {
    ## Parent
  } elsif (defined $pid) {
    ## Child
  } else {
    ## Error, $pid is undefined
}

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