ps_kill {ps}

Kill a process

Description

Kill the current process with SIGKILL preemptively checking whether PID has been reused. On Windows it uses TerminateProcess().

Usage

ps_kill(p = ps_handle())

Arguments

p

Process handle.

See Also

Other process handle functions: ps_children(), ps_cmdline(), ps_connections(), ps_cpu_times(), ps_create_time(), ps_cwd(), ps_descent(), ps_environ(), ps_exe(), ps_handle(), ps_interrupt(), ps_is_running(), ps_memory_info(), ps_name(), ps_num_fds(), ps_num_threads(), ps_open_files(), ps_pid(), ps_ppid(), ps_resume(), ps_send_signal(), ps_shared_libs(), ps_status(), ps_suspend(), ps_terminal(), ps_terminate(), ps_uids(), ps_username()

Examples

px <- processx::process$new("sleep", "10")
p <- ps_handle(px$get_pid())
p
ps_kill(p)
p
ps_is_running(p)
px$get_exit_status()