kill a process

[Unregistered]

Is there a command to get a childs process PID and kill it?

I am using :

pid = getpid(); this one kills the main program.

or
pid = getppid(); this one kills all of the windows.

[Fordy]

Which platform???

For Win32 ypou could use TerminateProcess()

[Unregistered]

Unix platform

[Salem]

use the kill() function then - section 2 of the manual

[Unregistered]

this is in the main program

system("./man&");

which executes another child program.

how do I kill that program from the main program?

I am using this but it kills all the windows or the main program. I just want to kill the child process.

int pid;
pid = getppid();
kill(pid,1);

Thanks again,

[Salem]

Then use fork() and execl() for creating the process, and you'll have the process ID directly to hand

Something like this

int pid;
pid = fork();
if ( pid == 0 ) {
    execl( "/bin/man", "/bin/man", NULL );
}

/* here, man will be running with process ID pid */