Anonymonk--
Please read the question... Sys::AlarmCall has nothing to do with either killing/preventing zombies, or capturing output.
I've read perlipc already!! Sheesh...
bluto++
Thanks for the helpful info and link (and *reading* my question :) ). When so many things in perl are easy to do, one expects everything to be easy - my mistake. I think i have enough to go on now to have a play around.
- ><iper
my JAPH:
print"Just another Perl hacker\n";
# ^ look, no space! pretty tricky hey?