A fork problem

[Dukelow, Don]

 
I got this basic "fork" code right out of the book.  It is suppose to wait
for both child forks to finish before the parent falls through and excute
the code after this "if" statement.  But which ever child finishes first the
parrent will fall through and finish before all the children are done.  So
I'm looseing data!  Outer wise it woork fine.  Can someone tell me why the
parrent isn't waiting for both children?  The second child does finish a few
minutes after all else is done.


if (($pid1 = fork() ) && ($pid2 = fork() )) {
   print "I have to wait for my kids.\n";
   my $strabbler = wait();
   print "Finally $strabbler finished, now I can go.\n"; }
} elsif ($pid1 && defined($pid2)) {
   &get_switch($FILE2, $OUT_FILE1, $CDP_OUT_FILE1);
   exit();
} elsif (defined($pid1)) {
   &get_switch($FILE1, $OUT_FILE2, $CDP_OUT_FILE2);
   exit();
} else {
   die( "Forking problem: ");
}

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