KILL(1)                 GENIX Programmer's Manual                 KILL(1)



      NAME
           kill - terminate a process with extreme prejudice

      SYNOPSIS
           kill [ -sig ] processid ...
           kill -l

      DESCRIPTION
           Kill  sends  the  TERM  (terminate,  15)  signal  to  the  specified
           processes.   If  a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as
           first argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate  (see  sig-
           nal(2)).  The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and are as given
           in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG prefix.

           The terminate signal will kill processes that do not catch the  sig-
           nal;  `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be
           caught.  By convention,  if  process  number  0  is  specified,  all
           members  in  the  process  group  (i.e. processes resulting from the
           current login) are signaled (but beware: this works only if you  use
           sh(1);  not  if you use csh(1).) The killed processes must belong to
           the current user unless he is the super-user.

           To shut the system down and bring it up single user  the  super-user
           may  send  the  initialization  process a TERM (terminate) signal by
           `kill 1'; see init(8).  To force init to close  and  open  terminals
           according to what is currently in /etc/ttys use `kill -HUP 1' (send-
           ing a hangup, signal 1).

           The process number of an asynchronous process started  with  `&'  is
           reported  by  the shell.  Process numbers can also be found by using
           Kill is a built-in to csh(1); it allows job specifiers  ``%...''  so
           process  id's  are  not as often used as kill arguments.  See csh(1)
           for details.

      SEE ALSO
           csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), signal(2)

      BUGS
           An option to kill process groups ala killpg(2) should be provided; a
           replacement for ``kill 0'' for csh(1) users should be provided.















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