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in reply to Coping with a large family (interprocess communication)

You may want to look at Re: multiple fork() where a lot of this is handled for you.

The idealogies for it plus some extra goodies can be found in the Net::Server module on CPAN (look in the lib/Net/Server/PreFork.pm module).

my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];