Killing a background process from a C program

[Doug McDonald]

In article <159 at matrix.UUCP> you write:
>In article <1990Jul19.151728.17448 at ncs.dnd.ca> marwood at ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
>>I am in the process of converting a Bourne shell script to C, and I am
>>having trouble finding out how to identify and kill background
>>processes.  With the Bourne Shell approach this was simple, using $!.
>>

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Please, keep discussion relating  to operating systems OUT of comp.lang.c!!
Send them to the correct OS-specific getto!!! In this case, comp.unix.questions.


Doug McDonald