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Kill is an operation of removing an object or process from memory so that other processes/variables can use them.

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kill a process started with popen

After opening a pipe to a process with popen, is there a way to kill the process that has been started? (Using pclose is not what I want because that will wait for the process to finish, but I need to kill it.)
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When a parent process is killed by "kill -9", will subprocess also be killed?

One of my colleague told me this morning, when he killed supervisord by "kill -9", the subprocesses of supervisord is not killed. He is quite sure about that, but I tried many times and did not find that happen. So when a parent process is killed…
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Detect when console application is closing/killed?

I wanted to make a safe exit for my console application that will be running on linux using mono but I can't find a solution to detect wether a signal was sent to it or the user pressed ctrl+c. On windows there is the kernel function…
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How to kill a child thread with Ctrl+C?

I would like to stop the execution of a process with Ctrl+C in Python. But I have read somewhere that KeyboardInterrupt exceptions are only raised in the main thread. I have also read that the main thread is blocked while the child thread executes.…
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kill iOS Simulator from terminal

I'm trying to terminate the iOS Simulator from the terminal console (needed for integrating automatic UI Testing in Jenkins),but every time I try the command: killall SimulatorBridge a prompt waiting for action gets displayed: The problem is that…
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Kill or terminate subprocess when timeout?

I would like to repeatedly execute a subprocess as fast as possible. However, sometimes the process will take too long, so I want to kill it. I use signal.signal(...) like below: ppid=pipeexe.pid signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM,…
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How can I prevent my Android app/service from being "killed" from a task manager?

It is very important that my service stay running until someone with a password stops the service from my UI screen. My app runs great but it is designed to be turned on/off by parents (with a password) on their kids phones. I have managed to make…
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How to propagate a signal through a collection of scripts?

I have an collection of scripts which are controlled by a main one. I want to trap the signal ctrl+c in the main script and propagate it to the others. The other scripts should trap this signal as well ( from the main script ) and do some clean-up…
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Linux C catching kill signal for graceful termination

I have a process using sockets, database connections and the likes. It is basically a server process relaying between sensor data and a web interface, and as such it is important to ensure the application, if killed, terminates gracefully. How do I…
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If I kill a System.Diagnostics.Process with .Kill(), do I also need to call .Close()?

Using C# 4.0, I've created a System.Diagnostics.Process that I expect to take a short amount of time to run. If for some reason the process hasn't exited after some amount of time (e.g, I've called .WaitForExit(timeout) and the return value was…
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The right way to kill a process in Java

What's the best way to kill a process in Java ? Get the PID and then killing it with Runtime.exec() ? Use destroyForcibly() ? What's the difference between these two methods, and is there any others solutions ?
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how can I kill a Linux process in java with SIGKILL Process.destroy() does SIGTERM

In Linux when I run the destroy function on java.lang.Process object (Which is true typed java.lang.UNIXProcess ) it sends a SIGTERM signal to process, is there a way to kill it with SIGKILL?
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C# Process Killing

I need to write a program in c# that would just start, kill one process\exe that it is supposed to kill and end itself. The process I need to kill is another C# application so it is a local user process and I know the path to the exe.
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How to kill a process from WiX

I am developing an installer using Wix and need to kill a process (not application) silently during installation so the user doesn't get a pop up asking to kill the process or wait and restart. I have seen solutions for killing an application but…
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How to kill my own Activity - the hard way

So I have my Activity, and on pressing a "Quit" button I call Activity.finish(). This effectively closes my application. The problem: The Dalvik-process of my application is still hanging around as a zombie in background. It seems like this is…
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