In article <199911221446.OAA04088@orchard.arlington.ma.us>,
Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote:
>While we're talking about creeping featurism, how about a "kill
>process group" variant..
>
>(I've found this useful in the past for killing off builds run out of
>cron/at, with an additional minor hack in place in the build script to
>put the build into a new process group).

kill -sig -pgrp works...

christos