fork() question

I think I am getting the idea of fork() all wrong. Here is an example:


my $pid = fork();

if ($pid) { # should apply to parent only?
exit;
}

sleep 1;
print "Test\n";
exit;


'Test' does not print. If I remove the 'sleep 1' - it prints. From what
I understood fork creates two identical processes that become completely
independent from each other. What am I missing?

Peter
.

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