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Re: signal propogation to backgrounded subshells


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: signal propogation to backgrounded subshells
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:40:29 -0600
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Jeff Weber wrote:
(/bin/kill is required. The bash builtin kill cannot kill an entire process group.)

Well, assuming you know that /bin/kill is what you want. In my case I know I would want to use 'env kill <args>' instead. (Does bash really not have any other way to suppress built-ins?)

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Matthew
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