question about kill(pid, sig)

THETEZ · 04-17-2004, 09:08 PM

what value should i use to kill all children from the parent?

0 -1 or less than -1

nodger · 04-17-2004, 09:38 PM

I dont know but if you do a search on Google youll find the answer in about 30 seconds. Whats that you say? you already found it?

THETEZ · 04-17-2004, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by nodger
I dont know but if you do a search on Google youll find the answer in about 30 seconds. Whats that you say? you already found it?

you know this because you found the answer in about 30 seconds? if so what is it

whats that you say? still searching?

Hko · 04-18-2004, 05:37 AM

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Originally posted by THETEZ
what value should i use to kill all children from the parent?

When calling fork() it returns that pid of the child. If you save those pid's, say, to an array of pid's you can kill them looping through the array.

Or you could loop through all pid's in /proc, killing all processes that have their parent ID set to the pid of the parent (which you can get with getpid())

I think there's no "special way" to do this.