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To kill a parent and all its children on Unix, you can make the parent a process group leader via the Perl builtin setpgrp function or the POSIX module. With that done, any children this process creates will also be a member of this process group, so sending a signal to this process group will kill the parent and all its children and their children and so on.

On Windows, which does not support process groups, you can achieve the same thing via Win32 Jobs, accessible from Perl via the Win32::Job module.

In reply to Re: Killing children's of children by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Killing children's of children by scarus

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