On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 21:38, Ahmed Moustafa wrote:
> Chas Owens wrote:
> > my $terminate = 0;
> > $SIG{TERM} = sub { $terminate = 1 };
> > until ($terminate) {
> > #do stuff
> > }
> >
> > #cleanup
> >
> >
> > You should definitely provide some means of cleanly bring down your
> > daemon.
>
> Cleaning up is application specific, isn't? Or, is there a standard
> procedure?
>
> How can a child process be forced to be killed (in the cleaning up)?
>
> --
> Ahmed Moustafa
> http://pobox.com/~amoustafa
The daemon should not come down until all of its children are finished.
That is why you need intercept SIGTERM.
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