Kill all processes launched inside an xterm when exit

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Kill all processes launched inside an xterm when exit

I'm using Cygwin to start some servers.

Each server is launched inside an xterm with a bunch of command like this one:
xterm -e $my_cmd /C &

Is there an easy way to kill all launched children (xterm and their running commands) in a row ?

I want also to be able kill a particular launched command when I close its parent xterm.

Someone knows how to perform that ?

killall xterm? That command is in the psmisc package. Xterm will notify its child process with a SIGHUP ("hangup") before it exits. Normally that will cause the child process to exit too, although some servers interpret that signal differently.

ak2 2010-10-08 04:44:17

killall xterm is too violent: that kills other xterm that should be left alone. And the children processes re not killed...

Guillaume 2010-10-08 08:59:47

In that case I guess you'll need to write a script that combs through `/proc` to find the appropriate processes to kill.

ak2 2010-10-09 21:04:01

Oh, and you did ask "Is there an easy way to kill *all* launched xterm".

ak2 2010-10-09 21:12:32

@ak2: yeah, I fix it ;).But my title is: Kill all processes launched inside an xterm when exit

Guillaume 2010-10-11 08:45:55

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