Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes() and kill()

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:23, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm using g_spawn_async_with_pipes() to launch pppd on a little app I'm
> developing. I launch it with:
>
>                 g_spawn_async_with_pipes(NULL, argv, NULL,
>                                          G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,
>                                          NULL, NULL, &self->pppd_pid,
>                                          NULL, &pppd_out, NULL,
>                                          &spawn_err);
>
> And then later I need to kill pppd and am doing it with:
>
>                 kill(self->pppd_pid, SIGTERM);
>
> But here lies the problem, because this call kills my app too with
> signal 15. I can't find anywhere in the docs why this should be the
> case. Any pointers?

Yes, in Linux (and probably most other Unix-like OSs), SIGTERM is defined as 
15.

Chris