ps_terminate {ps}R Documentation

Terminate a Unix process

Description

Send a SIGTERM signal to the process. Not implemented on Windows.

Usage

ps_terminate(p)

Arguments

p

Process handle.

Details

Checks if the process is still running, to work around pid reuse.

Examples

## these examples only work on Posix

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

See Also

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


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