in reply to Multiple Childern/Zombies

If you don't care to collect the exit values of the child, 
$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';

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Re^2: Multiple Childern/Zombies
by clickingwires (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2011 at 14:28 UTC
    Thank you all. I ended up using $SIG(CHLD) = 'IGNORE'; I didn't care about the response from the "Grandchildren" because they have their own error handling and logging. Thanks again.
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