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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: timeout command
Message-ID: <1961@convex.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:03:24 GMT
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In article <942@amc-gw.UUCP> stuart@amc-gw.UUCP (Stuart Poulin) writes:
>How about an option (-r) that would kill any children of the process
>that timeout kills?

Use killpg() instead of kill().

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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