Sorry about the Macabre, but that's essentially what I want: It seems that children of my process (created using fork) get reparanted to init when my process dies unexpectedly. I'd like to have them all die on the spot instead (not wait for them to finish - kill them on the spot). How do I do this? I assume it would have to do with a big begin/rescue/end block around the whole app... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.