Is there a command in ruby that when given the pid , it will terminate 
all children processes of that pid including itself.

thanks

Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> Name Name <exl2 / cornell.edu> writes:
> 
>> I want this to be portable, ie not just *nix, so I can't fork.
> 
> It is because of portability issue that I wrote my reply.
> Being portable does not mean staying of OS-specific features. You can
> do that, if there is another option for you to take. In this case,
> however, there is no other.
> 
> So, being portable for your needs means providing different workaround
> for different environment.
> 
> I don't know much about win32, but I know for *nix, you need to do the
> forking and setup IO redirection yourself (not using IO.popen at all).
> 
> The other people here have replied about doing this in win32.
> 
> YS.


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