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Inifinite Loop on fork

I am trying to ping through a list of devices in parallel.
When the code below is executed, I enter a infinite loop.
I want to used the number of lines in the file as my boundry.

I am a perl rookie and just cant see whats wrong.
would appreciate help ...

Code:
use Net::Ping;
#
$filename = <@ARGV>;
open(CONT, $filename) or die "can't open $file: $!";
$bndry++ while <CONT>;
print $bndry;
close(CONT);
#
open(FILE, $filename) or die "can't open $file: $!";
while(<FILE>) {
 $ip = $_;
  chomp $ip;
  if (fork() == 0) {
$pingo = Net::Ping->new();
 if ($pingo->ping("$ip")) {print "Pinging $ip:\t Status:\tOk\n";}
 else {
     print ("Pinging $ip:\t Status:\tNot Ok\n");
 }
 $pingo->close();
    exit;
  }
  $children++;
 # if ($children >= $bndry) {
  if ($children >= 51) {
    wait();
    $children--;
  }
}
while ($children > 0) {
  wait();
  $children--;
}
exit 0;

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usoc(7D)							      Devices								  usoc(7D)

NAME
usoc - universal serial optical controller for Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (SOC+) device driver DESCRIPTION
The Fibre Channel adapter is an SBus card that implements two full duplex Fibre Channel interfaces. Each interface can connect to a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL). The usoc device driver is a nexus driver and implements portions of the FC-2 and FC-4 layers of FC-AL. FILES
/kernel/drv/usoc 32-bit ELF kernel module /kernel/drv/sparcv9/usoc 64-bit ELF kernel module ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Unknown | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWusoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
fctl(7D), sbus(4), fcp(7D), fp(7D), ssd(7D) Writing Device Drivers Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) ANSI X3.230: 1994 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) ANSI X3.272-1996 Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA) NCITS TR-19:1998 Fabric Channel Loop Attachment (FC-FLA), NCITS TR-20:1998 DIAGNOSTICS
The following messages are logged and may also appear on the system console. On the console these messages are preceded by: usoc%d: where usoc%d: is the per-port instance number of the usoc controller. Fibre Channel is ONLINE The Fibre Channel loop is now online. Fibre Channel Loop is ONLINE The Fibre Channel loop is now online. Fibre Channel Loop is OFFLINE The Fibre Channel loop is now offline. attach failed: device in slave-only slot. Move soc+ card to another slot. attach failed: alloc soft state. Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: bad soft state. Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to map eeprom Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to map XRAM Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to map registers Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to access status register Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to install interrupt handler Driver was not able to add the interrupt routine to the kernel. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to access host adapter XRAM Driver was unable to access device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: unable to write host adapter XRAM Driver was unable to write device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. attach failed: read/write mismatch in XRAM Driver was unable to verify device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible. SunOS 5.10 20 Jul 1999 usoc(7D)