Proc::Fork This module provides an intuitive, Perl-ish way to write forking programs by letting you use blocks to illustrate which code section executes in which fork. The code for the parent, child, retry handler and error handler are grouped together in a "fork block". The clauses may appear in any order, but they must be consecutive (without any other statements in between). All four clauses need not be specified. If the retry clause is omitted, only one fork will be attempted. If the error clause is omitted the program will die with a simple message if it can't retry. If the parent or child clause is omitted, the respective (parent or child) process will start execution after the final clause. So if one or the other only has to do some simple action, you need only specify that one. For example: # spawn off a child process to do some simple processing run_fork { child { exec '/bin/ls', '-l'; die "Couldn't exec ls: $!\n"; } }; # Parent will continue execution from here # ... If the code in any of the clauses does not die or exit, it will continue execution after the fork block. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This documentation is copyright (c) 2002 by Eric J. Roode. This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Aristotle Pagaltzis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.