Re: Killing a child process

[Anonymous Monk]

The corrected code snippet, with the usual thanks to all commenters.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;

my $pid = fork || exec 'play', '/home/ra/Desktop/trek2.mp3';
print "My PID is *$pid*\n";
sleep 5;
kill 'KILL', $pid;

[ikegami]

The approach recommended above is actually the less violent

kill INT => $pid;