How to kill a child process by the parent process?
Send a SIGTERM or a SIGKILL to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGKILL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTERM SIGTERM is polite and lets the process clean up before it goes, whereas, SIGKILL is for when it won’t listen >:) Example from the shell (man page: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?kill ) kill -9 pid In C, you can do the same thing using the kill syscall: kill(pid, … Read more