[Linux-disciples] perl parent vs. child vs. process group -- killing

[Dylan Thurston]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:14:53AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> The above code no longer works; apparently the process group is connected
> to the parent and not the child.  killing getppid() doesn't work in this
> case, though, because the $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE' doesn't apply to the
> parent.

Can you set the process group ID?  There's a handy system call setpgid
which is presumably what the shell at an interactive prompt does for
you.

Only vaguely understanding what's going on,
	Dylan
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