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1. Killing csh background process **AND** any unfinished processes (fg and background) it started

Hi,

Does anybody know of a solution for killing a csh background process
**AND** any unfinished processes (fg and background) it started.

I know you guys think tcsh sucks but translating the csh code to bash is
not trivial task because of it's large volume of the case I have at
hand.

I should mention that when the csh script is started in the foreground
on a terminal and I do a ^C it behaves excellent in that it exits and
all the processes it started exit.

Things I considered (and didn't work for me):

   * Use the -q option of csh and kill with a signal: QUIT (3). Only
     kills the shell but not a process started by the shell in the
     foreground (actually another csh).
   * Use the csh onintr command and when interrupt time arrives the
     processes will be killed with signal INT (2) before the script
     exits. The same for the processes started. With the many scripts
     this becomes unfeasible. I'm hoping to add a line or two to each
     script, max.
   * Use the tcsh hup command and kill with a signal: HUP (1). Again,
     the process started by tcsh in the fg doesn't finish.
   * Set limits on cpu usage. Ugly and insufficient because a process
     might not take cpu but still get left behind.

After this mess is solved, I'll try to hook this all up to Python;-) And
never code in csh again?

Thanks for your time,
Jurgen

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