Hi,

I created the child process using fork and keep the child in the infinite loop. After some time expires, I wanted to kill the child process using kill -9, $pid; which doesnot help. Below is the code: 

$|=1;
$TimeOut = 100;
$StopTime = time + $TimeOut;

if($cmd =~ /INFINITE/i){            
    unless (fork){
        $child_pid = $$;
        eval $cmd;                    
        while(1){
            sleep(1);
            if (time >= $StopTime){
                print "killing child process $$";        
                kill -9, $child_pid;    
            }                    
        }
        exit 0;
    }
}
else{
    eval $cmd;
}

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Here the parent process will aslo run for a long time. I wanted to kill the child before the parent dies. I am running the script in windows XP with perl 5.6 version. Please let me know if any alternatives to kill the child or if I did something wrong.

In reply to Killing the child process is not working by srlbharu

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