1reaper(3)             User Contributed Perl Documentation            reaper(3)
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NAME

6       reaper - support for reaping child processes via $SIG{CHLD}
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SYNOPSIS

9         use reaper qw( reaper reapPid pidStatus );
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11         my $pid = fork;
12         if ( $pid == 0 ) { # child
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15         reapPid ( $pid );
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19         if ( defined(my $exit = pidStatus($pid)) ) {
20           # child exited, check the code...
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DESCRIPTION

24       reaper is just a backwards-compatibility wrapper for Reaper -- turns
25       out that only 'pragmas' are supposed to be named in lower case, so I
26       renamed reaper to Reaper.  But existing code contains 'use reaper', so
27       this allows such code to work without changes.
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AUTHOR

30       Jeremy Slade <jeremy@jkslade.net>
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SEE ALSO

33       Reaper
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POD ERRORS

36       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
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44perl v5.12.2                      2006-06-07                         reaper(3)