NAME
    Process::KillTree - Kill process and all its descendants (children,
    grandchildren, ...)

VERSION
    version 0.02

SYNOPSIS
     use Process::KillTree qw(kill_tree);

     my $pid = ...;
     kill_tree pid => $pid, signal => 'KILL';

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides kill_tree().

FUNCTIONS
    None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

  kill_tree(%args) -> RESULT
    Kill process and all its descendants (children, grandchildren, ...).

    To find out about child processes, Sys::Statistics::Linux::Processes is
    used on Linux. Croaks on other operating systems.

    Returns the killed PIDs.

    This function supports dry-run (simulation) mode. To run in dry-run
    mode, add argument "-dry_run" => 1.

    Arguments ("*" denotes required arguments):

    *   action => *code*

        If specified, will call action instead of killing the processes.

        Code will be supplied $pids, an arrayref containing all the PIDs to
        kill.

    *   pid => *int*

        Process ID to kill.

        Either pid or pids must be specified

    *   pids => *array*

        Process IDs to kill.

        Either pid or pids must be specified

    *   signal => *str* (default "TERM")

        Signal to use, either numeric (e.g. 1), or string (e.g. KILL).

SEE ALSO
    Process::KillGroup

AUTHOR
    Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Steven Haryanto.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.