Contributed by Anonymous Monk
on Jun 20, 2000 at 05:24 UTC
Q&A
> programs and processes
Description: This is my code,
$pid = fork;
if($pid == 0)
{
exec " ";
}
How can I kill this process?
Answer: How to kill a process after calling fork?
contributed by chromatic In the parent, if the fork call succeeds, $pid will contain the process ID of the child. You can then use the kill command to send any sort of signal to it (as you know the PID).
my $pid = fork();
if ($pid == 0) {
# we're the child
# exec something or other
} else {
sleep 10; # give the child a chance
kill 1, $pid; # nighty-night
}
Something along those lines will suffice. |
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