Re^3: Allowing user to abort waitpid

Moving the child to its own process group (setpgrp(0,0)) would also avoid getting the INT signal when the user presses a Control-c.

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Re^4: Allowing user to abort waitpid by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2016 at 10:07 UTC
Sure, there is a number of ways to do it. `setpgrp` is not in (Perl's) `POSIX`, but it has `setpgid`. Doing that will have other consequences wrt SIGQUIT, SIGHUP etc. Probably not a problem in practice, though. Come to think of it, system might also be close to what the OP is trying to do...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Allowing user to abort waitpid by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2016 at 10:15 UTC
setpgrp is not in (Perl's) POSIX Hah, I forgot those built-in Perl's Unix functions :)	[reply]