[Qt-interest] Can't kill a process with QProcess::kill()

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sexta-feira, 18 de março de 2011, às 11:42:48, Florian S. escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> i try to kill an asynchronously started QProcess (it's a shellscript which
> starts aplay) with p->kill(). The sound played by aplay continues, so the
> process is still running. However, when executing this script in a
> terminal, it can be killed by either SIGKILL (kill -9) or SIGINT (^C in the
> terminal).
> 
> Do you have any idae how i can stop this process?

You probably killed the shell script, but not the aplay process.

Note that QProcess does not set up a POSIX process group for its started 
processes, so killing one process won't necessarily kill all children 
processes.

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