From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T15:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: backtick processes running away

Nevermind, looks like popen works afterall.

Yay!

-Kurt

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:55:00PM +0900, Kurt M. Dresner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a program right now that as part of its behavior runs some
> commands with backticks (`), distributing jobs amongst a large cluster
> of machines.  When one machine completes the job, it kills all the other
> threads attempting to execute that job, however the actual processes
> created by the commands in the backticks don't seem to die.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> I'd use popen, but the commands in the backticks could take several
> minutes to come back, and I wasn't sure if popen would work.
> 
> -Kurt
> 
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