it won't work. Perl does some caching on ppid/pid because of threading issues (for example linuxthreads and other threading implementation implements threads via clone() as different proccess - so getp

id() doesn't return same values across threads.). The solution would be to use Linux::Pid module from CPAN (which always return true pid/ppid values) and then it should work as supposed.

hmm, didn't know that.. good to know.

Hmm oke, thanks for the info.

I no longer need help on the child proceses since I got around fixing my kill handlers so the child processen stops when the parent gets killed/stopped. I've tested my old code (which didn't work properly) but for some reason the child processes stopped when I kill the parent. It's very strange because I've tested it before and it didn't work at that time. Oh well, I'm just happy that it's fixed now.