Kill a process and (optionally) all its child processes

Source: R/command.R

Run the command taskkill /f /pid on Windows and kill on Unix, respectively, to kill a process.

proc_kill(pid, recursive = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

pid

The process ID.

recursive

Whether to kill the child processes of the process.

...

Arguments to be passed to system2() to run the command to kill the process.

Value

The status code returned from system2().