Yes, if you find a way to duplicate this with a fairly simple program, I'd like to run it and see if I can replicate it also.

I don't have a Linux machine myself, but I do have access to a 64 bit Linux, active-state 64 bit installation on a remote machine. I can hammer on this machine during the evenings and on the weekends.

Setting $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE' should cause the low level sigaction() structure to be set. Once that happens, Perl has nothing at all to do with this signal as Perl would never even see the signal. So if this causes a "reap" of the child, I can see why this doesn't cause a problem.

Anyway, if you can make this happen more often than once every 24 hours, then I have a way to make a couple of runs on the weekend when the college's server is at a low usage level.

In reply to Re^9: Best way to kill a child process by Marshall
in thread Best way to kill a child process by doylebobs

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.