in reply to Preforked children not killed when parent is killed

A server is likely to have a custom SIGHUP handler, being a daemon. SIGHUP is what is really sent to child processes when the parent exits.

If the child sets $SIG{HUP} to exit, all should be well.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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