| pskill {tools} | R Documentation |
pskill sends a signal to a process, usually to terminate it.
pskill(pid, signal = SIGTERM) SIGHUP SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGKILL SIGTERM SIGSTOP SIGTSTP SIGCHLD SIGUSR1 SIGUSR2
pid |
positive integers: one or more process IDs as returned by
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signal |
integer, most often one of the symbolic constants. |
Signals are a C99 concept, but only a small number are required to be
supported (of those listed, only SIGINT and SIGTERM).
They are much more widely used on POSIX operating systems (which
should define all of those listed here), which also support a
kill system call to send a signal to a process, most often to
terminate it. Function pskill provides a wrapper: it silently
ignores invalid values of its arguments, including zero or negative pids.
In normal use on a Unix-alike, Ctrl-C sends SIGINT,
Ctrl-\ sends SIGQUIT and Ctrl-Z sends
SIGTSTP: that and SIGSTOP suspend a process which can be
resumed by SIGCONT.
The signals are small integers, but the actual numeric values are not
standardized (and most do differ between OSes). The SIG*
objects contain the appropriate integer values for the current platform
(or NA_INTEGER_ if the signal is not defined).
Only SIGINT and SIGKILL will be defined on Windows, and
pskill will always use the Windows system call
TerminateProcess.
A logical vector of the same length as pid,
TRUE (for success) or FALSE, invisibly.
Package parallel has several means to launch child processes which record the process IDs.
## Not run: pskill(c(237, 245), SIGKILL) ## End(Not run)