> This would fix the problem on Unixen with setsid, which
> should be pretty much all of them; on any that don't have it,
> the behavior doesn't change. Still leaves Windows out in the
> cold, but I don't see that we have anything much we can do
> about it there --- Windows users will just have to know to
> kill the child script process instead of the postmaster.
I haven't really been folliowing this thread. What exactly is it you
want to accomplish (maybe there is a different way to fix it on win32)?
Kill a process along with all it's subprocesses?
//Magnus