Kill
terminates each process (for a numeric
process ID
pid)
or
process running a given
module
(for a non-numeric module name),
by writing a
kill
message to the corresponding process's control file
in
prog(3).
The
-g
option causes
kill
to write a
killgrp
message instead, killing all processes in the given process's process group
(see
sys-pctl(2)).
Processes running a
module
are identified by their
status
file, and the process ID of each such process is printed on standard output.
A process that incurs an exception (eg, array bounds check)
is normally suspended in the `broken' state to allow debugging.
Broke
finds all such processes owned by
user
(default: the current user), and
prints
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.