kill the child process

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
        sorry for this none-debian specific question.

        In my C program, I have created a child process to do some timeout
        stuff in case something goes wrong.

        But when I exit the main program, how do I kill this child process
        since I no longer need it??

        I have checked the man page for wait... but is there anyway to 
instantly kill
        this child process??

        Thanks

Shao.

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