From: Eero Saynatkari <eero.saynatkari@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T01:01:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Kill process by his name

David Corticchiato wrote:
> Hi
> 
> is it possible to kill a process by his name without using directly a 
> program of the OS used ? I mean without using system(...) or `...`.

No. That is not generally supported even on POSIX systems
(hence the killall command). You can parse the process list,
grab the PID and issue a kill on it.


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