On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:51:42PM +0200, walter valenti wrote: > for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++){ > my $pid=fork; > die "$!\n" unless defined($pid); > unless($pid){ > sleep; > } > } > sleep; [snip] > if i send a 'TERM' at the father, i want that the fathet kill the childs > and aftet it dies... but how do the father to obtain the "pid" of the > childs ???'????
You have the PID right there, returned by fork(). Store it in an array or something and use that to send signals to the children. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]