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From: "Steven Hartland" <killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Sonam Chauhan" <sonam DOT chauhan AT ce DOT com DOT au>,
   "Jurgen Defurne" <jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problems in Perl process management
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:24 +0100
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that's by design if u want to kill an entire tree u can do so with process
explorer a free download from www.sysinternals.com.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jurgen Defurne"


>I also would like to know if it is possible.
> 
> However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I have
> a Perl script which forks several children and monitors their output.
> 
> If a child fails, then it has no use to run all forked processes further
> and I kill them with the perl 'kill' command. However, I also notice that
> deeper forked processes (grandchildren) refuse to die. This
> script is only run using ActiveState Perl.
> 
> I think it is really a serious Windows problem, because using
> the task manager it also seems not really possible to kill a complete
> process hierarchy.



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