Re: kill the child process
* Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>:
> In my C program, I have created a child process to do some timeout
> stuff in case something goes wrong.
>
> But when I exit the main program, how do I kill this child process
> since I no longer need it??
>
> I have checked the man page for wait... but is there anyway to
> instantly kill this child process??
Have a look at 'man 2 kill' instead. The PID is the returnvalue from fork.
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