in reply to Check if forked process is dead

The issue is that unless you have waited on your child process, it's still in the process table, so kill can send signals to it.

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Re^2: Check if forked process is dead
by petr999 (Acolyte) on Mar 02, 2011 at 22:01 UTC
    Looks like that.
    How could I know that from the documentation?
    Should I check for the fork existence in a different way?
    My pgrep -P command doesn't see the forked process at the time kill 0 does. This can not be a bug, so what's the salt of a perl feature here?
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