R: Kill a process

ps_kill {ps} | R Documentation

## 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()

[Package ps version 1.5.0 Index]