Re: Killing a child process

The corrected code snippet, with the usual thanks to all commenters.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;

my $pid = fork || exec 'play', '/home/ra/Desktop/trek2.mp3';
print "My PID is *$pid*\n";
sleep 5;
kill 'KILL', $pid;
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Re^2: Killing a child process by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 03, 2017 at 15:37 UTC
The approach recommended above is actually the less violent `kill INT => $pid;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]