Can't kill a non-numeric process ID at ./t.pl line 36.

Being as the script I linked to only has 35 lines, you must have changed something.

Given the reference to "kill", it would have to be one of these two lines producing the error:

    kill 0, $pid while sleep 1 and $timeout--;
    kill 3, $pid and return if $timeout;

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And given that $pid is set by this line:

        $pid = open my $fh, "$cmd |" or die "$!, $^E";

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it can only take a numeric value or undef. If it was undef, due to the command failing to run, then the die would have prevented the code reaching the kill lines.

So, what did you change and why?

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In reply to Re^3: Function for Timing out shell commands without getting Zombie Prozesses by BrowserUk
in thread Function for Timing out shell commands without getting Zombie Prozesses by bae11208

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