Hello All, I am forking a process in a for loop using exec and in the parent process, I want to kill the child processes. How can I get to know the pids for each of the child processes that were created? In the parent process, I can get to know the pid for one child using pid, but what about the rest? here's my psuedo code: 
for loop  {
    $pid=fork;
    exec (command);
}
if ($pid > 0) { # I am in the parent process
  kill child pid; # How to do for multiple child processes?
}

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I can use the modules or can do ps -ef > file and parse the file to getthe child pids and kill them. I don't want to use modules. Is there some other way of doing the above? Thanks

In reply to how to get pid for multiple child process in parent process by sonalig

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