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From: dsmythe@netcom.UUCP (Dave Smythe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: How to guarantee the death of a child process
Message-ID: <16933@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 08:11:14 GMT
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Regarding killing the other siblings, could you not simply send SIGTERM, or
somesuch to the process group?  That would get them all...

D
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Dave Smythe
netcom!dsmythe@apple.com   N6XLP  (also dsmythe@portia.stanford.edu)