Name
kill
Synopsis
kill sig, processes
Description
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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