[BBLISA] To kill a process tree

[Edward Ned Harvey]

I am now questioning whether I have misunderstood process groups.  Here's what I know:

ps -eo "%U%p%P%g%c" | grep eharvey
says:
All of my processes have the process group "patni" ... and so do all of my colleagues...


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From: hag at linnaean.org [hag at linnaean.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:16 PM
To: Edward Ned Harvey
Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] To kill a process tree

    Check if the unix in front of you supports sending signals to all
members of a process group.  Usually kill treats a negative number
that isn't -1 as a pgroup on such systems.  You might also have
killpg(3).