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in reply to Re: Could not catch all children after fork, some of them never end
in thread Could not catch all children after fork, some of them never end

No, the implementation of fork in Perl is somewhat of a pseudo-implementation with quite a few caveats. Do a super-search on signal to read some threads which wound-down just a few days ago.

That answer is too lazy to be useful, and its wrong to boot -- typical

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