This may not be a gtk problem, but let me explain my problem. I have an
GTK+ application which starts processes using fork and execle, which works
great. I save the process id (pid) of that process . Later on, a user
pushes a button called 'stop tasks' and when called it concatenates the
'kill' command with the saved pid. Below is some basic code.
When I try to kill the processes I started the system command does not
return an error code but the process consistently goes into a <defunct>
mode instead of dying. However, when I leave my GTK+ application, the
<defunct> process does die. But why not immediately. Is this a gtk
problem, or a UNIX limitation or is the fact that I started the processes
with the GTK application cause some sort of a parent - child relationship.
Thanks ahead of time for your help.
sprintf(process_id,"%d",tasks->task_list[row].process_id);
strcpy(executable,"kill -9 ");
strcat(executable,process_id);
system(process_id);
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