Killing staprun/stapio cleanly from another process

Mike Mason mmlnx@us.ibm.com
Mon Sep 17 20:43:00 GMT 2007


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> [...]  So if I fork/exec staprun from a program, then want to kill
>> staprun/stapio from that same program, how can I do it?  I only have
>> staprun's pid. [...]
> 
> Try sending the signal to the process group (negative of staprun pid).

That works.  Thanks!

> If that doesn't work, then staprun should be changed to let it consume
> signals.
> 
> - FChE



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