Fork multiple processes()??

How do you kill all the processes of a fork()??

Having some massive problems with not being able to close a program due to other processes of a fork still being open.

(For source code, check out http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...405#post806405 )

Well, you could just send a SIGKILL or SIGINTR to them...

Or just wait for them to die by themselves using wait() or waitpid().

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Mats

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Originally Posted by matsp

Well, you could just send a SIGKILL or SIGINTR to them...

Or just wait for them to die by themselves using wait() or waitpid().

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Mats

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Which one's better?

Will those actually close the program cleanly? (sockets in this case)

Killing the process will close sockets.

Obviously, it's better to let the parent process wait for the processes to exit by themselves, but if the process has for some reason locked up, then you can't really wait for it...

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Mats

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Originally Posted by Paul22000

Having some massive problems with not being able to close a program due to other processes of a fork still being open.

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Strange problem to be having. A process should be able to exit even while children are still running. Unless you're on some weirdo platform -- more details?

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Originally Posted by brewbuck

Strange problem to be having. A process should be able to exit even while children are still running. Unless you're on some weirdo platform -- more details?

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I'm using Linux, and gcc.

All my source code and a makefile can be found at http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...405#post806405

Any ideas on how to close the processes?

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Originally Posted by Paul22000

I'm using Linux, and gcc.

All my source code and a makefile can be found at http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...405#post806405

Any ideas on how to close the processes?

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That was already answered, but anyway...

1. Terminate them with kill()
2. Wait for them to exit normally with wait()
3. Use some other mechanism of your own devising to tell the subprocesses to exit cleanly.

But on Linux, there is no reason why a parent process cannot exit before its children do. What makes you think it cannot?

Is the problem this:

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                        while( 1 )
                        {
                                int pid = fork();

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Basically, every time you enter or receive something, you fork another process. That's a tad excessive I think.

That can be a bit difficult to deal with, but I think both branches of the fork will block on waiting for input, so if you start another shell, you should be able to kill the first fork, and then go down the tree of forked processes.

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Mats

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Originally Posted by brewbuck

That was already answered, but anyway...

1. Terminate them with kill()
2. Wait for them to exit normally with wait()
3. Use some other mechanism of your own devising to tell the subprocesses to exit cleanly.

But on Linux, there is no reason why a parent process cannot exit before its children do. What makes you think it cannot?

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It doesn't allow the client to disconnect even if I put close(sock) all over the place lol