So I tried to print out pid in parent process. It turned out to be 22718. However I did "top" right after I launched the script. The ID of main process is 22717 while that of kid process is 22719. As a result the kid process is not killed. Why is that? My code looks like this: 
if ($pid=fork)
{
     print $pid, "\n";
     do{
         if (-e "mdinfo")
         {
             $last=`tail -1 mdinfo`;
             if ($last =~ /Density/)
             {
                @last_mdinfo=split ' ',$last;
                $den=$last_mdinfo[2];
             }
         }
     } while ($den < 1.0000 or $den > 1.005);
     kill 15, $pid;
}
elsif (defined($pid))
{
    exec(qq(/opt/amber/bin/sander -i ele1.0.mdin -c ele1.0.inpcrd -p e
+le1.0.prmtop -o ele1.0.mdout -r ele1.0.restrt &));
    exit(0);
}
else {
print "child was not created\n";
}
print "done\n";

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In reply to Re^4: How to monitor a child process from a perl script by oscarjiao
in thread How to monitor a child process from a perl script by oscarjiao

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