Extend Process.kill() to be able to kill process groups

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on June 09, 2010 20:48:00

As for subprocess proposal: http://bugs.python.org/issue5115

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=93

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on June 17, 2010 13:49:40

Thinking back, a more generic "get_children" separate method would probable be better to solve this problem:

>>> p = psutil.Process(1024)
>>> for pid in p.get_children():
...      psutil.Process(pid).kill()
...
>>> p.kill()

Merging into issue 97 for now.

Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 97