Re: Alternate termination sequence option --term-seq

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Rasmus Villemoes
<rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
;
> One can call setpgid on behalf of another process. So GNU Parallel can
> put the child created by open3 in its own process group by doing
> setpgid(child, 0) (equivalently setpgid(child, child)). In Perl, it
> seems that the wrapper for the setpgid system call is setpgrp, but the
> semantics should be the same.

But that does not seem to work. This kills burnP6:

perl -MIPC::Open3 -e 'if($f=open3(A,B,C,"burnP6")) { 1;}  sleep 2;kill
"TERM",$f'

This does not:

perl -MIPC::Open3 -e 'if($f=open3(A,B,C,"burnP6")) { setpgrp($f,$f);}
sleep 2;kill "TERM",-$f'


/Ole