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+# Copyright (C) all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+
+# automatically kill + reap children when this goes out-of-scope
+package PublicInbox::AutoReap;
+use v5.10.1;
+use strict;
+
+sub new {
+ my (undef, $pid, $cb) = @_;
+ bless { pid => $pid, cb => $cb, owner => $$ }, __PACKAGE__
+}
+
+sub kill {
+ my ($self, $sig) = @_;
+ CORE::kill($sig // 'TERM', $self->{pid});
+}
+
+sub join {
+ my ($self, $sig) = @_;
+ my $pid = delete $self->{pid} or return;
+ $self->{cb}->() if defined $self->{cb};
+ CORE::kill($sig, $pid) if defined $sig;
+ my $ret = waitpid($pid, 0) // die "waitpid($pid): $!";
+ $ret == $pid or die "BUG: waitpid($pid) != $ret";
+}
+
+sub DESTROY {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ return if $self->{owner} != $$;
+ $self->join('TERM');
+}
+
+1;