Spawning a process, then killing it on SIGINT

[aliak]

On Saturday, 23 November 2019 at 10:09:51 UTC, mipri wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 November 2019 at 09:54:48 UTC, aliak wrote:
>> Is there a way to go about killing a process after spawning it 
>> on a SIGINT?
>>
>> I can't do this for e.g. because kill is not @nogc.
>
> Well, this works:
>
> import std;
> import core.stdc.signal;
>
> extern(C) int kill(int pid, int sig) nothrow @nogc @system;
>
> int currentSpawnedPid;
> extern(C) void killCurrentPidHandler(int sig) nothrow @nogc 
> @system {
>   if (currentSpawnedPid > 1)
>     kill(currentSpawnedPid, sig);
> }
>
> int main() {
>   auto pid = spawnProcess(["sleep", "50s"], stdin, stdout, 
> stderr);
>   currentSpawnedPid = pid.processID;
>   signal(SIGINT, &killCurrentPidHandler);
>   return wait(pid);
> }

Thanks, looks like I'll have to go that route.