> But that doesn't work, because some servers, like httpd, launch in > such a way that the parent httpd process ends up with ppid = 1.
Do they provide an interface to get the PID? ISTR that HTTP::Server::Simple does, for example. In which case... > Is there any way to automatically kill all the child processes > created by a script (and their descendents)? For example, can I > catch each subprocess creation somehow and record the pid in a > global array? I don't know about the collection part, but I always store PIDs to local *.pid files, the better to be able to clean them up on subsequent runs, should a test get interrupted. I can also make that the main job of a t/99-cleanup.t file: walk through the pid dirs and kill anything still running, then remove any temp directories that they may have been using. Encapsulating that work into a single test is also nice as you can simply call that test as part of 'make [dist]clean' :) -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@endpoint.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8
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