how to kill a subprocess

[cerr]

On Sep 10, 12:18 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Am 10.09.2010 20:56, schrieb cerr:
>
> > But I wanna kill the child process I start from my python code.
> > It's like
> > PHP -> Python -> Perl
>
> > and when the connection PHP -> Python seems to work well!
>
> You have said that the Python process becomes a zombie process. This
> clearly tells me that the issue is in your PHP script. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork-exec

No, the Perl becomes the zombie.