How to kill a process after calling fork?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (programs and processes)

This is my code, $pid = fork; if($pid == 0) { exec " "; } How can I kill this process?

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Re: How to kill a process after calling fork?⭐ by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 20, 2000 at 05:56 UTC
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, $pid; # nighty-night }` [download] Something along those lines will suffice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to kill a process after calling fork? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 04, 2003 at 12:53 UTC
Good answer! Just add a comma between 'kill 1' and '$pid'. -- Do You Yahoo?! NO, THANK YOU! Get rid of ads and banners in e-mail with Proxmail! http://proxmail.notlong.com Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]
Re: How to kill a process after calling fork? by rraha (Initiate) on Nov 26, 2003 at 22:52 UTC
If you know the pid try using pslist -t and then pskill pid.They are downloadable apps from sysinternals.com Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]