kill a process started with popen

Question

After opening a pipe to a process with popen, is there a way to kill the process that has been started? (Using pclose is not what I want because th

Answer 1

Actually if the process is doing I/O (which it should be, otherwise why popen instead of system(3)?), then pclose should whack it with a SIGPIPE the next time it tries to read or write, and it should fall over nicely :-)