If You have the pids, just use system again, with the argument
system ("kill -SIGTERM <pid>&")
not a bad idea...
Leo
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From: "Padubidri Nagaraja Rao, Guruprasad (Guruprasad)** CTR **"
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:57
Subject: [Solaris-Users] Signal Handling - Need Help
Hi All,
I've a process (parent process) running which inturn invokes
many other processes (child process) one by one sequentially.
Now, i've a need to handle signals in these processes. From
the user point of view, he can only send a signal to the parent
process. Now my question is when the parent process
receive a signal (For example, SIGTERM), how to propagate the
same to every other child process so that they can do necessary
clean ups and gracefully exit ?
One way is to use IPC such as shared memory to store PID of
the child process and the parent process can access the
shared memory to get the PIDs and kill the child processes
accordingly. But this adds a lot complication and i am
not sure whether it's a good design. May be, it is !!!!
Is there any alternative way to propagate the signal to the
child processes ? Any feedbacks/ideas are welcome.
Thanks & Regards,
Guru Prasad
P.S : These processes are Perl scripts and i using 'system()'
function to invoke other processes from the parent process.
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