Re^2: Stopping subprocesses

My attempt at the negative PID didn't work. The complaint was "Bad signal number". What did you mean by the negative PID? IS that the negative of the PID of B?

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Re^3: Stopping subprocesses by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 24, 2010 at 15:40 UTC
My attempt at the negative PID didn't work. The complaint was "Bad signal number". Your negative pid was taken to be the signal number. Explicitly specify the signal and you should be ok `$ perl -esleep & [1] 3298 $ kill -3298 bash: kill: 3298: invalid signal specification $ kill -KILL -3298 $ [1]+ Killed perl -esleep` [download]	[reply] [d/l]