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From: larrym@pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca (Larry Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Killing a background process from a C program
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Date: 20 Jul 90 11:20:13 GMT
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Organization: Forestry Canada, Chalk River, Ont.
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marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:

>What I would like to do is start a background process at one point in the
>C program, and at a later time kill it.  Currently I am invoking the
>background process with system("background_process &");, but none of the
>texts that I have available help me to proceed any further.

The latest Computer Language (July) has an article on manipulating Unix
processes in C.  It discusses the monitoring of PIDs and includes code for 
terminating those processes.

Larry Marshall
Petawawa National Forestry Institute