[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

[Moshe Kaminsky]

* Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> [02/05/06 16:00]:
> parent.sh
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 	<do something>
> 	/path/to/child.sh
> 	<do something else>
>
> When parent.sh receives a TERM signal, I would like child.sh to receive
> TERM also, and then parent.sh receive TERM.
> The <do something else> part is why I can't use "exec /path/to/child.sh". Is
> there some way to achieve this?

You can use 'kill 0' to send a signal to your own process group. 
Something like this:

#!/bin/sh
trap 'kill 0;exit' TERM
echo "before"
( sleep 30; echo inside )
echo "after"

Note that you can also send the signal with the negative of the pid, and 
then it goes to the whole process group.

Moshe

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