CTRL-c kills all children of current parent process.

Volker Quetschke quetschke@scytek.de
Mon Dec 11 04:10:00 GMT 2006


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:07:13PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
(snip)
>> Hmm, the CTRL-c kills the child and the parent returns because
>> the child finished.
>>
>> Now start it again and send the SIGINT via `kill -INT <parentid>` from
>> another shell (3x in this example):
> 
> Typing CTRL-C sends a SIGINT to every process in the process group, unlike
> using "kill -INT".

Ah, the missing link. Thank you!

  Volker

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