R: Terminate a Unix process

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_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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