[Gllug] killing a process and child processes

[Anthony Newman]

salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need some code which does the following - send a sighup to a process and
> all child processes of that process.
> 
> The only way I have found of doing this is "killall -HUP -g foo". However
> this is far from perfect (for example killall does not exist on *BSD).


killall is also best avoided on Solaris ;)

> Is there a better way to do this ?

pkill?


Ant
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