On 15:16 21 May 2002, Bubulac Tatiana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I want to terminate a parent process that attach several shared
| memory segments
| with kill(pid, SIGTERM) but it fails to terminate.
| Even if I give the command from command line it fails to terminate.
| If I give kill -9 pid it terminates but the shred memory segments
| remains.
| Why I cannot terminate it with SIGTERM signal?
|
| "....
| status = kill ((pid_t)pid, SIGTERM);
| printf("status = %d\n", status);
| ...."
| The status is 0. The pid is correct.
If the status is zero then your signal _was_ delivered.
Most likely the parent process is catching (or ignoring) SIGTERM
and just being rude and unhelpful by not dying.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Education, Not Prohibition.
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