Danek Duvall wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:33:00PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Lcd wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 3 February 2016, Jun T. <takimot...@kba.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 2016/02/03, at 19:04, Jun T. <takimot...@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > call system("killall test_channel.py") this doesn't work either,
> > > > > > > because the name of the process is not 'test_channel.py' but
> > > > > > > 'python'.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I forgot to mention that killall works on Linux. killall on Mac (and
> > > > > > maybe on many non-linux systems) is not so clever.
> > > > >
> > > > > pkill(1) should work on (recent) Linux, *BSD, OS-X, and Solaris.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the hint. "pkill --full test_channel.py" should work.
> > > > I'll add a check for "pkill". I'll assume they all have the --full
> > > > argument.
> > >
> > > Not on Solaris, which has just -f for that.
> >
> > OK, let's use "pkill -f" then.
> >
> > > Is there a reason that grabbing the pid and killing that directly wasn't
> > > appropriate? Do not all shells support $!?
> >
> > We don't have the PID (yet).
>
> That's what
>
> let pid = system("./test_channel.py& echo $!")
> ...
> call system("kill " . pid)
>
> was all about -- the script would emit the pid of the job running in the
> shell, the vimscript would capture that, and then pass it to a kill
> command. That's about as precise as we can get, I think.
Nice solution. Does that $! work with every shell?
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