Hello everyone, I'm using the following to call a child process from my script and then time it out:

     my $pid = fork(); 

                    if (!$pid) {
                        system($command); 
                                   
                    } 

                    else {
                        
                        sleep $max_time;
                        print "Since $max_time minutes have elapsed, w
+ill kill process with PID $$ ";                           
                        system("TASKKILL /F /T /PID $$");
                     }
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Two problems, and I'm not sure what they're from. (1) After completing the child process on time, I get a popup from windows that says "perl.exe has stopped working..." (2) When I look in task manager, there are a bunch of Taskill.exe that seem to be left over even after I have closed the processes they were trying to kill... If anyone has any idea what's going on it would be very helpful.

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