I know if I simply "kill pid" then the process and all its children will die. But I don't want to kill them. I want to "kill -SIGTSTP pid" ... and this works as long as I name all the pids in the process tree. It does not cascade the signal to all the child processes if I only name the parent pid.
Does anybody know a way to send a specific kill signal to a all the descendents of some specific pid? FWIW - I read the kill man page, and it's riddled with errors. The most annoying one was ... * (from man kill) -p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals. * So then I did this: [harve...@gotham ~]$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 6382 pts/18 00:00:00 bash 20595 pts/18 00:00:00 ps And: kill -KILL -p 6382 unfortunately kills my present terminal. D'Oh!!
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