On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:16:54PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20000317080737.A28020@tome.neutralgood.org>,
> Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >What about programs that have multiple processes which need to be
> >killed?
> >
> >Case in point: Infoseek's Ultraseek server.
> 
> Usually killing the parent process kills all the children, or the software
> has a command to kill the jobs.

Usually. Not always. 

Case in point: Infoseek's Ultraseek server. 

Plus, in the Ultraseek case, the parent *must* be killed before the
child.
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