I need to kill a process and all of its subprocesses programatically.
Killing the group is not an option because I do not want to kill the parent processes.
Example:
pid process
1 nice parent process that should live
2 subprocess of 1, but a nice one, should live
3 subprocess of 1, evil one, should die
4 childprocess of 3, inherite evil, should die
5 childprocess of 3, inherite evil, should die
6 childprocess of 5, inherite evil second line, should die
kill --some-cool-option 3
Best Answer
I don't think there is a solution as simple as a simple
kill
command.My answer to this question may help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30980234/linux-the-most-reliable-way-to-terminate-a-family-of-processes/31004557?noredirect=1#comment50067451_31004557.