Re: How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?

o re-write it to trap a signal (e.g. SIGUSR1) that instructs the child to kill /its/ child (the assumption being that the child knows its own child's PID). This is not a bad idea. I may explore this in a future rev... -- Jim Seymour -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?

Gary Johnson wrote: From a shell prompt, execute cygcheck -p killall Thanks. Found it in the psmisc package. Now, I have a program that works as I expect without too much line-noise-as-syntax... :-) -- Jim Seymour -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?

Lev Bishop wrote: On 10/23/06, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, if things don't work fine, the background process sticks around to plague me later. I'd like to end my main script by killing the background process (if it's still around), but I'm havi

How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?

6 con 11024 17:00:39 /usr/bin/sh 3340 724 7243048 con 11024 17:00:41 /usr/local/bin/ocdremote 3556 2196 3556 2192 con 11024 17:00:49 /usr/bin/ps $ kill %?ocdremote bash: kill: %?ocdremote: no such job -- Jim Seymour -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple