in reply to Re^3: Killing the child process is not working
in thread Killing the child process is not working

The system 1, $cmd does not work.

Can you please let me know how to get the child process id in the Child code? If I know that I will try to send the SIG{INT} interrupt, because manual CTRL-C gets me into the interrupt handler for $SIG{INT} and program execution stops

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Re^5: Killing the child process is not working
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2013 at 10:16 UTC
    The system 1, $cmd does not work.

    Define?

    Can you please let me know how to get the child process id in the Child code?

    I already did. Read fork

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