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pkill has a -g option to send a signal to a process group. |
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--- Vladimir |
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On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:48 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > I think (untested) you can do something like |
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> > trap 'kill <pid of child>' TERM |
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> > at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it |
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> > in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you want the parent to terminate, |
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> > add the exit command as well: |
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> > trap 'kill <pid of child>; exit 1' TERM |
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> But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way |
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> to send signals "recursively" to a process and its children. |
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> Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... |
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> Thanks, |
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> Jorge Almeida |
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic |
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