From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T00:39:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9139] Re: pid of executed program

>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

H> Is another way to do this to use setpgrp to set the process group
H> of the process and then use kill("-SIGNAL", pgrpid)?

 Yes, but kill("SIGNAL", 0) can be used to send a signal to a program
 running in background via system("program &") (i.e. you don't need to call
 #fork and #setpgrp in this case)


Guy Decoux