Proc::Killfam3pm
Kill a list of pids, and all their sub-children
Usage
use Proc::Killfam;killfam $signal, @pids;
Overview
killfam accepts the same arguments as the Perl builtin kill command, but, additionally, recursively searches the process table for children and kills them as well.
Examples
killfam 'TERM', ($pid1, $pid2, @more_pids);
Keywords
kill, signal
Releases
13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 12 times.