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.TH KILL 1
.SH NAME
kill, broke \- terminate process(es)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kill
[
.B -g
]
[
.I pid ...
]
[
.I module ...
]
.PP
.B broke
[
.I user
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Kill
terminates each process (for a numeric
process ID
.IR pid )
or
process running a given
.I module
(for a non-numeric module name),
by writing a
.L kill
message to the corresponding process's control file
in
.IR prog (3).
The
.B -g
option causes
.I kill
to write a
.L killgrp
message instead, killing all processes in the given process's process group
(see
.IR sys-pctl (2)).
Processes running a
.I module
are identified by their
.L status
file, and the process ID of each such process is printed on standard output.
.PP
A process that incurs an exception (eg, array bounds check)
is normally suspended in the `broken' state to allow debugging.
.I Broke
finds all such processes owned by
.I user
(default: the current user), and
prints
.IR sh (1)
commands to kill them.
The commands can be piped to the shell or selectively run,
releasing back to the system any resources owned by those processes.
.SH FILES
.TF "/prog/pid/status  "
.TP
.BI /prog/ pid /ctl
.TP
.BI /prog/ pid /status
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/cmd/kill.b
.br
.B /dis/broke
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR ps (1),
.IR prog (3)