DISCLOSURE: A Windows guy is about to offer a Linux suggestion. The suggestion may be stupid, crazy, weird or wrong or some combination of the above.

Now that we've moved past the disclaimer, here's my thoughts. If you have the process ID for script B, wouldn't it be possible to use the Linux command pkill with the -P option to kill script B and all of it's child processes? If that does work, I would think that it should be trivial calling that from script A.

From the man page on pkill's -P option: Only match processes whose parent process ID is listed.

Being that I primarily work in the Windows environment, I'm not sure if what I'm suggesting even makes sense, but thought that I'd toss it out in case I'm miraculously correct. Of course, I suspect that I might be overlooking something.

In reply to Re: Stopping subprocesses by dasgar
in thread Stopping subprocesses by James Board

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