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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Killing a background process from a C program
Keywords: flame
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.142338.10783@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 14:23:38 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.151728.17448@ncs.dnd.ca> <159@matrix.UUCP>
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In article <159@matrix.UUCP> you write:
>In article <1990Jul19.151728.17448@ncs.dnd.ca> marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
>>I am in the process of converting a Bourne shell script to C, and I am
>>having trouble finding out how to identify and kill background
>>processes.  With the Bourne Shell approach this was simple, using $!.
>>

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Please, keep discussion relating  to operating systems OUT of comp.lang.c!!
Send them to the correct OS-specific getto!!! In this case, comp.unix.questions.


Doug McDonald