Kill - DEC Digital Alpha VME 4/224 User Manual

kill

kill — delete process
Deletes the processes listed on the command line. Processes are killed by making
a call to a kernel function with the process ID (PID) as the argument.
Syntax
kill pid1 [ pid2 . . . ]
Arguments
pid1 pid2 . . .
Specifies the PIDs of the processes to be killed. You can display PIDs with the ps
command.
Example
>>> memtest -p 0 &
>>> ps | grep memtest
000000f1 00217920 2 9357 ffffffff 0 memtest ready
>>> kill f1
>>> ps | grep memtest
Runs memtest. Displays the test's PID (f1) with the ps and grep commands.
Deletes the process with the kill command. Displays the process again
memtest
to show that it is now gone.
See Also
ps
Console Commands 13–61