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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: sending SIGCONT to suid root child processes
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 02:22:14 EDT
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> I have a process which spawns a child which executes a set uid to root
> process. The parent wishes to signal the child to tell it when to exit, so
> following the manual page kill(2) in the 4.2 manual, I try to send
> SIGCONT. However the child does not receive the signal.
> 
The way the shell handles this is to send a SIGCONT to the process
group that the child is in.

-Ron