Dear Monks:

I am executing a shell script (on unix) using pipe so to have access to STDOUT and STDERR in filehandle $jobfh: 

$jobfh->open("script.sh 2>&1 |");

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This script may internally spawn many child processes. If I want to terminate all processes $jobfh->close does not work if the current process (launched by script.sh) is waiting for STDIN.

Thus, I need to kill the above process and all child (how do I create a list of all PIDs of script.sh?) processes of the above when I meet certain conditions in $jobfh. Can you please suggest how I can achieve killing the script (and all its child processes) when launching through open().


Thanks and best Regards.
SmilingBuddha

edit (broquaint): added formatting

In reply to Killing all processes launched using open() by SmilingBuddha

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