Name
kill
Synopsis
kill sig, processes
Sends a signal, sig
, to a
list of processes
. You may use a signal
name in quotes (without a SIG
on the front). This function returns the number of processes
successfully signaled. If the signal is negative, the function
kills process groups instead of processes.
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