Yes, this is a possibility indeed. I just was curious whether there is a possibility to kill jobs started with system(1,...); sorry if I was not clear enough in this respect.
It turns out that at least with my tests, I did find a solution which seems to work: Using a negative kill signal (kill -9) killed also my children. Knowing that Windows gets funny at times, I wonder whether this is indeed a reliable solution, or whether there could be cases when this strategy fails to work.
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Using a negative kill signal (kill -9) killed also my children
Hm. Which version of Perl are you using?
Update: I'm not sure when it was added, but the latest sources show that any negative signal value is now taken to mean "kill this process tree with prejuduce".
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