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Sample that kills the parent process. If you run from within a terminal, the program will terminate the calling shell (thus terminating the terminal window).
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killppid.c
#include <signal.h> /* For SIGKILL */
int main()
{
/* Sends the SIGKILL signal to the Parent Process ID (ppid) */
kill(getppid(), SIGKILL);
return 0;
}
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