On 1/31/15 8:13 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Dear bash developers -
>
> It is very difficult to overcome the problems caused by
> the scenario described within this email without something the
> enclosed "setpgrp <pid> <pgrp>" and "killpg <pgrp> <sig>"
> bash loadable builtins .
I haven't looked at the setpgrp builtin yet, but the kill builtin
already allows you to kill process groups by providing a `pid'
argument that's less than -1. It's done this since at least bash-3.0.
This just reflects how kill(2) treats its pid argument.
Chet
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