Kill a process and (optionally) all its child processes — proc_kill • xfun

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

Usage

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().