Terminate a Unix process
Send a SIGTERM signal to the process. Not implemented on Windows.
ps_terminate(p = ps_handle())
p |
Process handle. |
Checks if the process is still running, to work around pid reuse.
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()
px <- processx::process$new("sleep", "10")
p <- ps_handle(px$get_pid())
p
ps_terminate(p)
p
ps_is_running(p)
px$get_exit_status()Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.