Kill the current process with SIGKILL preemptively checking
whether PID has been reused. On Windows it uses TerminateProcess().
Usage
ps_kill(p = ps_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::ps_handle> PID=7484, NAME=sleep, AT=2024-01-21 20:58:04.16
ps_kill(p)
#> NULL
p
#> <ps::ps_handle> PID=7484, NAME=???, AT=2024-01-21 20:58:04.16
ps_is_running(p)
#> [1] FALSE
px$get_exit_status()
#> [1] -9