Ternimating a process that is started from insite a java program

Hi,
I have a question:
I am using Java 1.1 running on a HP-UX platform(HP-UX 11.0).
I start a "unix shell script" from inside a java process. Everything starts and runs perfectly fine. If for some reason I MANUALLY kill the java program with a "kill" command, the unix process that was started by the java process is not getting killed. (effectively the signal is not getting passed on to the child process). Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in Advance.
Srikanth
[email protected]

Here is what the java API docs say about the Process class:
The Runtime.exec methods create a native process and return an instance of a subclass of Process
that can be used to control the process and obtain information about it. The class Process
provides methods for performing input from the process, performing output to the process,
waiting for the process to complete, checking the exit status of the process, and destroying
(killing) the process.
The Runtime.exec methods may not work well for special processes on certain native platforms,
such as native windowing processes, daemon processes, Win16/DOS processes on Win32, or
shell scripts. The created subprocess does not have its own terminal or console. All its
standard io (i.e. stdin, stdout, stderr) operations will be redirected to the parent process
through three streams (Process.getOutputStream(), Process.getInputStream(), Process.getErrorStream()). The
parent process uses these streams to feed input to and get output from the subprocess.
Because some native platforms only provide limited buffer size for standard input and output
streams, failure to promptly write the input stream or read the output stream of the
subprocess may cause the subprocess to block, and even deadlock.
The subprocess is not killed when there are no more references to the Process object, but
rather the subprocess continues executing asynchronously.
There is no requirement that a process represented by a Process object execute
asynchronously or concurrently with respect to the Java process that owns the Process object.
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So the docs state that this class may not work with shell scripts. Which means that it may be no way to deal with this.
Good luck
Calin

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