Appreciate the info on the SIGTERM trapping, that looks like it's my problem. I wasn't aware that sending a kill signal just blew the program out of the water; I think that comes from never having had to code in this context before.

I've been considering moving STD outputs to files instead of to /dev/null, although at this point, I've coded around much of what's there, so I'm not sure how much more benefit I would gain. I do switch back and forth between having those lines commented out and not; the line you were referring to in the programExit() subroutine was intended to see if I was hitting the END{} sub, and STDOUT was open when I was using it.

I assume the code you're referring to in the last paragraph is this one:

if(!($pid = fork)){
    system("$parser $script");
}

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I'm confused as to what you're saying, though. When I fork the process, I believed that the process in question would only run what was inside the bracket, then exit. Is that not the case? Should I be using exec(), in that case?

In reply to Re^2: END{} Subroutine not being called for Child process by SituationSoap
in thread END{} Subroutine not being called for Child process by SituationSoap

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