Re: How to kill slave kernel securely?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117128] Re: How to kill slave kernel securely?
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:10:59 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:00:02 -0500 (EST), Alexey wrote: > Good day, > > LinkClose[link] "does not necessarily terminate the program at the > other end of the connection" as it is said in the Documentation. Is > there a way to kill the process of the slave kernel securely? If the kernel's $ParentLink is the link that got closed, then the kernel should kill itself after, at most, a few seconds. This is not true for MathLink programs generally, but it is true for Mathematica kernels. Are you coming across a case where that isn't happening? Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.