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Top Forums Programming Can SIGTERM to main process kill the detached threads? Post 302220193 by deepti_v25 on Thursday 31st of July 2008 05:40:02 AM
Old 07-31-2008
Can SIGTERM to main process kill the detached threads?

Hi,

I am stuck up with a strange problem.
I am writing an application - a kinda tracker that reads data from memcache and invokes theads to process each record of the memcache.

I dont want to join all my threads because my tracker should poll the cache in regular intervals say sum 300 seconds without waiting for the child thread completion.

To accomplish the above task, I created a detachable tracker thread for each poll of memcache which in turn creates worker threads n joins them.

so my main tracker thread need not wait for the detached thread and can start polling the cache at a stipulated time.

Now, when i tried to give a "kill <process_id>", i observed that only my main thread is killed whereas the detached thread and worker threads are still running!!! Smilie

Ideally , a kill to main should quit all my detached threads too...ne ideas/thoughts on how to handle this?? Kindly help
 

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KILL(1) 							   User Commands							   KILL(1)

NAME
kill - send a signal to a process SYNOPSIS
kill [options] <pid> [...] DESCRIPTION
The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9, -SIGKILL or -KILL. Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process groups; see the PGID column in ps command output. A PID of -1 is special; it indicates all processes except the kill process itself and init. OPTIONS
<pid> [...] Send signal to every <pid> listed. -<signal> -s <signal> --signal <signal> Specify the signal to be sent. The signal can be specified by using name or number. The behavior of signals is explained in sig- nal(7) manual page. -l, --list [signal] List signal names. This option has optional argument, which will convert signal number to signal name, or other way round. -L, --table List signal names in a nice table. NOTES Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to solve the conflict. EXAMPLES
kill -9 -1 Kill all processes you can kill. kill -l 11 Translate number 11 into a signal name. kill -L List the available signal choices in a nice table. kill 123 543 2341 3453 Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes. SEE ALSO
kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7), skill(1) STANDARDS
This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific. AUTHOR
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not standards compliant. The util-linux one might also work correctly. REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org> procps-ng October 2011 KILL(1)
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