sending SIGCONT to suid root child processes

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

> I have a process which spawns a child which executes a set uid to root
> process. The parent wishes to signal the child to tell it when to exit, so
> following the manual page kill(2) in the 4.2 manual, I try to send
> SIGCONT. However the child does not receive the signal.
> 
The way the shell handles this is to send a SIGCONT to the process
group that the child is in.

-Ron