Re: [Bug] Killing processes under new forking mechanism

[knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)]

Yves Pelletier (ypelletier@cmc.doe.ca) wrote:

> their own. I had to switch consoles and "kill -9" each of the processes
> one by one. 

Are you sure sending TERM or HUP would not have done the job?

> I was able to reproduce this problem quite reliably.  My understanding of
> "proper" unix is that if you kill a parent process, the children should
> die, too. On my system, that doesn't seem to be happening. 

This may also be a bug in your version of `make'. I've seen this
problem before and not only under MiNT.

BTW: I did not see any comments to the no-more-blocking-fork-patch.
Does it work for you? I still had no time to try it...

Bye,
Knarf
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