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Terminate a Unix process

Source: R/low-level.R
ps_terminate.Rd

Send a SIGTERM signal to the process. Not implemented on Windows.

Usage

ps_terminate(p = ps_handle())

Arguments

p

Process handle or a list of process handles.

Details

Checks if the process is still running, to work around pid reuse.

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_kill(), 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_uids(), ps_username()

Examples

px <- processx::process$new("sleep", "10")
p <- ps_handle(px$get_pid())
p
#> <ps::ps_handle> PID=8999, NAME=sleep, AT=2025-02-19 12:09:05.15
ps_terminate(p)
#> NULL
p
#> <ps::ps_handle> PID=8999, NAME=???, AT=2025-02-19 12:09:05.15
ps_is_running(p)
#> [1] FALSE
px$get_exit_status()
#> [1] -15