debian man page for proc::killfam

Killfam(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      Killfam(3pm)

NAME
       Proc::Killfam - kill a list of pids, and all their sub-children

SYNOPSIS
	use Proc::Killfam;
	killfam $signal, @pids;

DESCRIPTION
       killfam accepts the same arguments as the Perl builtin kill command, but, additionally, recursively searches the process table for children
       and kills them as well.

EXAMPLE
       killfam 'TERM', ($pid1, $pid2, @more_pids);

KEYWORDS
       kill, signal

perl v5.14.2							    2003-05-19							      Killfam(3pm)