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diff --git a/lib/remote.exp b/lib/remote.exp
index ce0d702..83472f7 100644
--- a/lib/remote.exp
+++ b/lib/remote.exp
@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@ proc close_wait_program { program_id pid {wres_varname ""} } {
# We reaped the process, so cancel the pending force-kills, as
# otherwise if the PID is reused for some other unrelated
# process, we'd kill the wrong process.
- exec sh -c "exec > /dev/null 2>&1 && kill -9 $exec_pid"
+ #
+ # Use `catch' in case the force-kills have completed, so as not
+ # to cause TCL to choke if `kill' returns a failure.
+ catch {exec sh -c "kill -9 $exec_pid" >& /dev/null}
}
return $res