On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:12:38PM +0530, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote:
Hi,
Can I send a kill signal to a process which is created using
system call ?
Basically I wanted to send a CTRL-C signal to the process
created by system call (of course in the same program).
Hi,
But for this you need to know the process id.
The system command doesn't returns, I think ?
~AN.
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From: Owen Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 4/25/07, Nath, Alok (STSD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
But for this you need to know the process id.
The system command doesn't returns, I think ?
~AN.
Take a look at the alarm function.
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On 4/25/07, Nath, Alok (STSD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I send a kill signal to a process which is created using
system call ?
No. system() won't return while the child process is still running.
If you have the process running in parallel (such as with fork, or a
piped
