Wouldn't the symbolic name be 'TERM', not 'SIGTERM' ? And also, since you're sending the signal to a process group, don't you need to give it a negative signal value?

=item kill LIST

Sends a signal to a list of processes.  The first element of
the list must be the signal to send.  Returns the number of
processes successfully signaled.

    $cnt = kill 1, $child1, $child2;
    kill 9, @goners;

Unlike in the shell, in Perl if the I<SIGNAL> is negative, it kills
process groups instead of processes.  (On System V, a negative I<PROCE
+SS>
number will also kill process groups, but that's not portable.)  That
means you usually want to use positive not negative signals.  You may 
+also
use a signal name in quotes.  See L<perlipc/"Signals"> for details.
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Wouldn't the symbolic name be 'TERM', not 'SIGTERM'?

I've just tested it. Actually both of them work. At least on perl 5.6.1.

And also, since you're sending the signal to a process group, don't you need to give it a negative signal value?

Oops. I'm sorry, I missed that. I don't know if it is allowed to write kill '-SIGHUP', .... If not still constants from POSIX.pm can be used instead of numbers:

use POSIX qw(SIGHUP);
kill -(SIGHUP), ....;
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