kill a process started with popen

Question

After opening a pipe to a process with popen, is there a way to kill the process that has been started? (Using pclose is not what I want because th

Answer 1

popen does not actually start a thread, but rather forks a process. As I look at the definition, it doesn't look like there is an easy way to get PID of that process and kill it. There might be difficult ways like examining process tree, but i guess you'd be better off with using pipe, fork and exec functions to mimic behaviour of popen. Then you can use PID you get from fork() to kill the child process.