Unix Programming - persistent process

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persistent process

J de Boyne Pollard

2007-10-22, 1:27 pm

SW> On the other hand, if there is no portable way, this could
SW> serve as a nice test for managers to find out good
SW> administrators for heterogenous unix networks: deploy
SW> the process via ssh on all the boxes and see on which
SW> unices he can manage to stop it ;)

Not really. As I wrote before: killpg() is your friend. The hardest
part of your test is determining how to persuade each system's "ps"
command to print out process group IDs. (Reading the manual page for
"ps" was the part that took me the longest, at any rate.)