Cleaning up after failed script

[audiopro]

I have recently configured a new computer for my dev work. The old one has served me well but has gone to the great server room in the sky.

Microsoft XP
apache_2.2.6-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8e.msi

Everything is working as it should do but I need to sort out a little problem which I have had for years and never got round to investigating.

Whenever I lock up a program, usually because of a simple typo, I can stop the web page which the script creates but the perl.exe process keeps running in the background. If I keep running scripts which do not terminate, I finish up with many perl processes running.
The perl process is killed after a successful run how do I get perl to tidy up after itself?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[1DMF]

are you running a script with forks? which might be creating the multiple processes

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[audiopro]

These are just ordinary scripts which are not closed following an error.
Missing a speech mark off a line causes the script to lock up and not close the process. I assume that, missing a speech mark causes a knock on effect throughout the script and produces so many errors that Perl just throws its rattle from the pram.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk