Re: Getting the pid of the process launched by my perl program

[edan]

in reply to Getting the pid of the process launched by my perl program

$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; # on systems where it's supported

defined( my $pid = fork ) or die "fork: $!";

if ( $pid )
{
    # parent
    print "child pid is $pid\n";
}
else
{
    # child
    exec("a.out") or die "exec: $!";
}

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanx much edan and ozone !!

[Anonymous Monk]

I'm using the same logic to monitor the child process with a timer in the parent. On maximum timeout I'm killing the child process. The issue is I'm running an exe from the child which doesn't die on kill the child. I tried to explicitly kill the process with taskkill on windows and it works fine. But I face portability issues because of using taskkill. Can anybody help on this?