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How to kill a process and its childs given pid and userid

I need to write a shell script which would take 2 arguments pid , userid. Then it should kill all the child process under it. If a child process is not killed then it should wait for 1 minute and should kill.

can anybody give me the idea to write it?
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PCNTL_WAITPID(3)							 1							  PCNTL_WAITPID(3)

pcntl_waitpid - Waits on or returns the status of a forked child

SYNOPSIS
int pcntl_waitpid (int $pid, int &$status, [int $options]) DESCRIPTION
Suspends execution of the current process until a child as specified by the $pid argument has exited, or until a signal is delivered whose action is to terminate the current process or to call a signal handling function. If a child as requested by $pid has already exited by the time of the call (a so-called "zombie" process), the function returns immedi- ately. Any system resources used by the child are freed. Please see your system's waitpid(2) man page for specific details as to how wait- pid works on your system. PARAMETERS
o $pid - The value of $pid can be one of the following: possible values for $pid +-----+---------------------------------------------------+ | | | |< -1 | | | | | | | wait for any child process whose process group | | | ID is equal to the absolute value of $pid. | | | | | | | | -1 | | | | | | | wait for any child process; this is the same be- | | | haviour that the wait function exhibits. | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | | | | wait for any child process whose process group | | | ID is equal to that of the calling process. | | | | | | | |> 0 | | | | | | | wait for the child whose process ID is equal to | | | the value of $pid. | | | | +-----+---------------------------------------------------+ Note Specifying -1 as the $pid is equivalent to the functionality pcntl_wait(3) provides (minus $options). o $status -pcntl_waitpid(3) will store status information in the $status parameter which can be evaluated using the following functions: pcntl_wifexited(3), pcntl_wifstopped(3), pcntl_wifsignaled(3), pcntl_wexitstatus(3), pcntl_wtermsig(3) and pcntl_wstopsig(3). o $options - The value of $options is the value of zero or more of the following two global constants OR'ed together: possible values for $options +----------+---------------------------------------------------+ | | | | WNOHANG | | | | | | | return immediately if no child has exited. | | | | | | | |WUNTRACED | | | | | | | return for children which are stopped, and whose | | | status has not been reported. | | | | +----------+---------------------------------------------------+ RETURN VALUES
pcntl_waitpid(3) returns the process ID of the child which exited, -1 on error or zero if WNOHANG was used and no child was available SEE ALSO
pcntl_fork(3), pcntl_signal(3), pcntl_wifexited(3), pcntl_wifstopped(3), pcntl_wifsignaled(3), pcntl_wexitstatus(3), pcntl_wtermsig(3), pcntl_wstopsig(3). PHP Documentation Group PCNTL_WAITPID(3)