Hello everyone, I'm using the following to call a child process from my script and then time it out: 
     my $pid = fork(); 

                    if (!$pid) {
                        system($command); 
                                   
                    } 

                    else {
                        
                        sleep $max_time;
                        print "Since $max_time minutes have elapsed, w
+ill kill process with PID $$ ";                           
                        system("TASKKILL /F /T /PID $$");
                     }

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Two problems, and I'm not sure what they're from. (1) After completing the child process on time, I get a popup from windows that says "perl.exe has stopped working..." (2) When I look in task manager, there are a bunch of Taskill.exe that seem to be left over even after I have closed the processes they were trying to kill... If anyone has any idea what's going on it would be very helpful.

In reply to Terminate process tree in windows by sjwnih111

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