On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 23:19 +0100, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: > On Ter, 2006-09-12 at 22:37 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > > Yes, in Linux (and probably most other Unix-like OSs), SIGTERM is defined > > as > > 15. > > Maybe I haven't explained myself clearly. I know SIGTERM is defined as > 15. Ok, but shouldn't kill(PID, SIGTERM) do the right thing and kill > _only_ the application with pid PID? Because right now it kill my pppd > and also my application (the one which calls kill()).
Perhaps your parent process is being terminated because it isn't catching sigpipe, and it had a write to a pipe the child reads from. When the child is killed, sigpipe is raised on the writing process. You could try putting your child into it's own process group. See W. Richard Steven's "Advanced programming in the Unix Environment", chapter nine. // Wally > > Rui > > > --=-XusrNgDumeJpzVXVHewe-- > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list -- Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
