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Old 05-06-2010
Script, child kills parent

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to write a script, i would like to say the child kills the parent,

how would i do that?
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Old 05-07-2010
i am not clear what you wanna do. Do you meen that child process will kill the parent process?
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Old 05-07-2010
yes, sorry for not being clear

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