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KILL(1)                     General Commands Manual                    KILL(1)



NAME
       kill, broke - print commands to kill processes

SYNOPSIS
       kill name

       broke

DESCRIPTION
       Kill  prints  commands  that  will  cause all processes called name and
       owned by the current user to be terminated.  Use the  send  command  of
       8½(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands.

       Kill  suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message de‐
       livered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a  surer,  if  heavy
       handed,  kill,  but  is  necessary if the offending process is ignoring
       notes.

       Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the Broken state
       and  owned by the current user to go away.  When a process dies because
       of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state  to
       allow  examination  with a debugger.  Executing the commands printed by
       broke lets the system reclaim the resources used  by  the  broken  pro‐
       cesses.

SOURCE
       /rc/bin/kill
       /rc/bin/broke

SEE ALSO
       ps(1), stop(1), proc(3)



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