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I have a BASH script which contains two separate processes: process_A,
process_B.  Process_A runs in the background and Process_B supplies
a series of data for Process_A.  

Now the problem is: After I quit the process_A, the process_B is still
alive and keeps working until all the data is exhausted.  What I want
is: when I kill process_A, the process_B also dies and the shell
script terminates totally.  The point is: how can I detect the end of
process_A and make it known to process_B as well.  I couldn't work it
out with the command 'trap' because the termination of process_A is
not done by 'signal' but by the internal 'quit' device of process_A.

Thanks for any ideas.
Tae.

| Now the problem is: After I quit the process_A, the process_B is still
| alive and keeps working until all the data is exhausted.  What I want
| is: when I kill process_A, the process_B also dies and the shell
| script terminates totally.  The point is: how can I detect the end of
| process_A and make it known to process_B as well.  I couldn't work it
| out with the command 'trap' because the termination of process_A is
| not done by 'signal' but by the internal 'quit' device of process_A.

It sounds like you could make note of the background process' ID and
send a signal from the script:

   process_B &
   ID_B=$!
   process_A
   kill -1 $ID_B

        Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington