On Nov 14 11:20, Michael Wiedmann wrote: > Hi, > > I need hints how to act if someone kills my Cygwin (parent) process using > Windows task manager and I want to kill all forked child processes. > I already keep a list of all childs pids and can kill them successfully in an > SIGINT handler (if the programm is started in foreground and is interrupted > e.g. by Ctrl-C).
When task manager kills a process, the process doesn't get a notification, as far as I know. You could use any sort of keep-alive mechanism between parent and children so the children end themselves when the parent died. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
