> My perl script forks and the child is subsequently replaced by another
> (non-Perl) program with exec(). That child has its own subprocess.
>
> In response to certain events, the parent tries to kill the child (and
> its children).
>
> Currently, my method for doing this is:
>
> local $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
> kill HUP => -$$;
>
> This works fine when the parent is run directly from a command prompt;
> however, when the parent is itself called from a shell script, the
> child's children are not killed.
..........
Can you show the rest of the code? There is documentation about this in the
Perl Cookbook, if you have access to that.
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