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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
       processes.

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

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

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