Re^5: how to kill background process when script exit?

I'm confused now. I thought you wanted to kill the child program at the end of your script?

Now you say you don't want to kill the child program. Which is it?

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Re^6: how to kill background process when script exit? by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 20, 2011 at 01:07 UTC
I want to kill the child program when the perl script exits. not sure where you got the other.	[reply]
Re^7: how to kill background process when script exit? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 20, 2011 at 08:15 UTC
Then the code I gave you should already work and kill the child at the end of the program. Maybe closing the filehandle to the kid and also adding a call to kill outside the END block helps to kill the kid earlier.	[reply]
Re^8: how to kill background process when script exit? by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 20, 2011 at 14:43 UTC
Okay, I tried that - closing the filehandle and putting the kill at the end of the script - still no go. Perl program stops executing until I exit the java app. It just does not seem that open() is launching the process in the background.	[reply]
Re^9: how to kill background process when script exit? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 20, 2011 at 14:51 UTC
Re^10: how to kill background process when script exit? by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 20, 2011 at 19:02 UTC
Re^10: how to kill background process when script exit? by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 20, 2011 at 23:36 UTC
Re^10: how to kill background process when script exit? by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 20, 2011 at 18:58 UTC