When pipe-spawning children, I usually follow this pattern to clean up stray detached child processes:
my $CHILD = open2(\*READ, \*WRITE, "$TSHARK $TSHARKOPTS") ||
die "Can't open2 child process: $!";
push @children, $CHILD;
END { kill 9 => @children; };
Of course, this simple approach is no good if you have a machine where PIDs get recycled very fast, or if you have a long running process with many children that have finished. Then a cleanup of @children if a child finishes is in order.
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