timeout command

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Fri Oct 6 00:03:24 AEST 1989


In article <942 at amc-gw.UUCP> stuart at amc-gw.UUCP (Stuart Poulin) writes:
>How about an option (-r) that would kill any children of the process
>that timeout kills?

Use killpg() instead of kill().

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist at convex.COM
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