Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 12:00:00AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> Doesn't work with the very old csh on Solaris. Tcsh supports it, as do
> bash, zsh, and ksh (88 & 93). No idea when it was introduced in each,
> though if ksh88 has it, I suspect all the bourne shell derivatives do,
> except maybe the original bourne shell itself.
>
> I'm guessing that pretty much everyone using an operating system that has
> pkill available will be using a shell with $!, except maybe some csh users.
> Csh users can be really, really stubborn. :)
>
> But that's just a guess.
Let's guess that systems that don't support $! also don't have Python.
Anyway, this is just temporary until we can get the PID with a Vim
function.
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