Re^2: Killing a system/exec/`` call if it times out

Cheers, but yeah, I'm looking for a "kill all children of this PID, and their children too"

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Re^3: Killing a system/exec/`` call if it times out by zentara (Cardinal) on Dec 02, 2011 at 16:44 UTC
You are looking for Proc::Killfam. Many, if not most times, when you fork to run a program, you end up getting the shell pid of actual program you ran. So if you killfam 9 that toplevel shell, you should get them all. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]