On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:48, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > I think (untested) you can do something like > > > > trap 'kill <pid of child>' TERM > > > > at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it > > in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you want the parent to terminate, > > add the exit command as well: > > > > trap 'kill <pid of child>; exit 1' TERM > > But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way > to send signals "recursively" to a process and its children. > Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... > Thanks, You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $!
So something like: subprocess & $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
