Why do I have to kill?

[Chris Jack]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:54:29 +0100, Chris Jack wrote:> I have a perl program running on Unix that does a fork, runs a process in the child,
> and exits. If I just let it exit(0) - then the Unix process doesn't die. If I do a kill 15,
> the child process does go away.Just a follow up on this, the reason turned out to be some sort of esoteric bug in the DBI library - I lose track of how many days I wasted to find that out. The solution was to use POSIX::_exit(0). kill 15, $$ caused a race condition in certain circumstances.
 
Chris
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