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Re: Kill cygwin process form task manager


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

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