How to crash a single process in Linux?

Question

I want to analyse the outcome of my application process when it crashes. How can I manually crash a single process in Linux?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 02 '17 at 07:07

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You could try using kill(1) and for example signal SIGSEGV (segmentation violation), SIGBUS (bus error) etc. Other useful signals may exist.

answered Jan 02 '17 at 07:07

user9517

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '17 at 16:54

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You can try to send a SIGILL signal to your process :

 kill -SIGKILL PID

To get the pid of a Running-Program

syntax:

pgrep program_name
pidof program_name

You can also try this command :

kill -SIGKILL $(pidof processName)

answered Jan 03 '17 at 16:54

romain.k

or use "killall" if you dont have the pid, it accepts process names – weberik Jan 03 '17 at 18:43

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