On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote:
You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable
$!
The child is not backgrounded!
So something like:
subprocess &
$pid=$!
Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want.
Based on the suggestions of Uwe and Vladimir, I tried
trap 'pkill -TERM -P $$; kill -s TERM $$' TERM
<do something>
. /path/to/child.sh
<do something else>
Doesn't work, yet. Note that child.sh is a shell script that may execute
some other command (like rsync), so the "." by itself may not be enough.
Thanks everyone.
Jorge
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