Child processes "reaping"

[1yura1]

Hello,

I use 'system' to execute another programs.
When executed processe fork another child processe(s), and this processe stop or not respond, 'system' not receive any signals from it.

Then I need to write my own processes "reaper" for my second, third, ... level child processes.
Does anybody did that before?

Thanks.
Yura.

 

[MikeLacey]

Yura,

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I did some thinking about this and I don't see a way to, directly, reap a "grandchild" process - a process started by a child process. Return codes from granchildren will have to be reaped by the children I think.

Mike

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[PaulTEG]

You could use storable.pm to store details on each of your offspring, and have a seperate process read through this list, and if it hasn't posted a return code within an acceptable timeframe, just kill the process

--Just a thought
--Paul