Reaping child processes demonstration
examples/linux/reap_child_process.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "parent $$\n"; my $pid = fork(); die "Could not fork $!\n" if not defined $pid; if (not $pid) { print "in child: $$\n"; exit; } print "In parent $$ child: $pid\n"; sleep 1; wait(); system "ps -lef | grep perl"; sleep 10;