Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies
Give pact several PIDs. When one PID dies, pact will kill all provided PIDs. - nickodell/pact
Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies launched on January 22, 2016 with 94 votes, #491 of 4,520 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Pact is a utility that monitors multiple processes and automatically terminates all of them if any one dies. Users provide it with several process IDs, and when one process exits, Pact kills the remaining processes. It's designed for developers and system administrators who need to manage groups of related processes as a single unit, ensuring none continue running if others fail.
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