#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use POSIX qw(:sys_wait_h); $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER; $|=1; #turn off STDOUT buffering my (@all_kids, @dead_kids); my @array = qw(a b c d e f g h); for (1 .. 10) { die "Bad Fork! $!\n" if ( !defined(my $pid = fork()) ); if ($pid ==0) #I'm child { $SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE'; #### comment out to exit on CTL-C my $t = int(rand(5))+1; print "@array sleeping $t secs\n"; sleep ($t); exit (0); } push (@all_kids, $pid); #I'm parent print "Started another child process - $pid.\n"; } print "All child processes have started...\n"; print "kids are: @all_kids\n"; $SIG{INT} = \&ctlc; #CTL-C handler in parent only while ( sleep(1), @dead_kids < @all_kids) {} #wait for kids to finish print "dead kids: @dead_kids\n"; print "All child processes are finished\n"; sub REAPER { my $pid; while ( ($pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) > 0) { print "Process $pid exited.\n"; push @dead_kids, $pid; } } sub ctlc { print "***** Ctrl-C Trap\n"; my %dead = map{$_ => 1}@dead_kids; print "still alive: "; foreach my $kid (@all_kids) { print "$kid " if !$dead{$kid}; } print "\n"; print "***** Ctrl-C Trap end\n"; }