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 delivered 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 allowing examination with a debugger.  Executing the commands printed by ­broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes. 

SEE ALSO

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

Plan 9  —  January 03, 1993