I have some code that controls a child process via open2. The sub process forks copies of itself to run in parallel, and might launch some subprocesses as well. I want to make sure that if the perl process ends, any remnent of the child (it's forks or its children) is gone. What I found putting "kill -15, $pid" didn't do the trick. Presumably, there is a a nice way to do clean up in situation like this -- at least better than the approach I am currently using. 
END {
if ($pid and (kill 0,$pid)) {
  system("pkill -TERM -g `ps --pid $pid --no-heading  -o  '%r'` ");  #
+ Kill everything forked
  system("pkill -TERM -P $pid ");  # Kill spawns
  kill("TERM", $pid);
       waitpid $pid, 0;
}
    undef $pid;
}

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Thanks!

In reply to No spawned process left behind by Anonymous Monk

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