in reply to Stopping subprocesses

I don't know if this works, but have you tried sending a SIGINT signal (which is what Ctrl+C does) to process B with kill, instead of the standard signal that kill sends?

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Re^2: Stopping subprocesses
by James Board (Beadle) on Aug 24, 2010 at 14:01 UTC
    I tried (kill -INT PID_OF_B). It didn't work.
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