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Re: Problems with background jobs in a script.

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Problems with background jobs in a script.
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:55:55 -0700
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On Aug 1,  5:18am, Dave Yost wrote:
} 
} All I'm trying to do is to get a script to recursively kill all of 
} its background processes on exit. (In my case, this should be an 
} issue only when the script is killed.)

Is there a reason that killing the process group and letting the OS
deal with propagating the signals will not work?

    TRAPEXIT() { kill -1 0 }
 
(Change -1 to whatever signal you wanted to send.)

References:
- Problems with background jobs in a script.
  - From: Dave Yost

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