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charlesetc / feather

A shell library for OCaml
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Feature: kill a background process #30

Open mattjbray opened 5 months ago

mattjbray commented 5 months ago

A common pattern in bash is to start a long-running process in the background, do something, then kill it:

foo &
FOO_PID=$!
# do other stuff
kill $FOO_PID

It'd be nice to have an API for this. (Currently there is no way to get the PID of a background_process.)

charlesetc commented 5 months ago

Yes that would be great to have. I guess a val kill : 'a background_process -> unit or something along those lines. Thanks for bringing it up!