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kill

kill - terminate process(es)

Synopsis

kill [-g] pid
kill [-g] module

Description

 The kill command terminates the process (numeric argument) or module (non-numeric argument) by sending a "kill" string to the corresponding ctl file. Processes running a named module are identified by their status file.
-g

 This option specifies that the message be "killgrp", requesting that all processes in the process group (see pctl) be terminated.

Files

/prog/pid/ctl

/prog/pid/status

See Also

ps and prog


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