KILL(1-SysV)        RISC/os Reference Manual         KILL(1-SysV)



NAME
     kill - terminate a process

SYNOPSIS
     kill [ -signo ] PID ...

DESCRIPTION
     kill sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes.
     This will normally kill processes that do not catch or
     ignore the signal.  The process number of each asynchronous
     process started with & is reported by the shell (unless more
     than one process is started in a pipeline, in which case the
     number of the last process in the pipeline is reported).
     Process numbers can also be found by using ps(1).

     The details of the kill are described in kill(2).  For exam-
     ple, if process number 0 is specified, all processes in the
     process group are signaled.

     The killed process must belong to the current user unless he
     is the super-user.

     If a signal number preceded by - is given as first argument,
     that signal is sent instead of terminate (see signal(2)).
     In particular ``kill -9 ...'' is a sure kill.

SEE ALSO
     ps(1), sh(1).
     kill(2), signal(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.


























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