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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <3421@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:37:08 GMT
References: <91051.180110F66204@BARILVM.BITNET> <1991Feb21.164300.3596@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Feb22.035953.29266@athena.mit.edu> <1991Feb23.091836.14043@Think.COM>
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<1991Feb23.091836.14043@Think.COM> by barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
& In article <1991Feb22.035953.29266@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
& >  I don't know if HP-UX supports the sending of a signal to "process" -1 in
& >order to send it to all of the processes to which the user is allowed to send
& >signals, but if it does, then you should be able to do "kill -1 -1" in your
& >.logout file.
& 
& Sounds like a good idea for a manual command, but not for a .logout file,
& if you ever login on more than one terminal.  If you're logged in twice and
& use that command you'll kill all the processes on both terminals.

Ah, but you see, "kill" is a csh builtin.  So it will just kill off
everything that is yours *except* the csh.

The original request also seems to be unclear as to whether by backgrounded
he means addressable as %2, %3, etc, or completely daemonized.  If it's
daemonized, then he should be a little more responsible about making sure
that the programs check that the ppid is what it was when it started.

I would give anything for the Pyramid OSx to have "kill -1" functionality
in the kernel!

& --
& Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
& 
& barmar@think.com
& {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar


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