On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > I know if I simply "kill pid" then the process and all its children will > die. But I don't want to kill them. I want to "kill -SIGTSTP pid" ... and > this works as long as I name all the pids in the process tree. It does not > cascade the signal to all the child processes if I only name the parent pid. > > Does anybody know a way to send a specific kill signal to a all the > descendents of some specific pid? > ...
You didn't mention which OS you're using. You may want to see if "pgrep/pkill" is available. e.g. pkill -SIGTSTP -P ppid - Paul Beltrani _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
