From: Andrew Timberlake <andrew@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T19:48:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to kill processes by it's name?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jun Young Kim <jykim@altibase.com> wrote:
> hi forks..
>
> as I mentioned it by mail title, How I can kill processes by it's name?
>
> Are there some libraries for this function in ruby?
>
> thanks for all.
>
>

I know it's not exactly what you're looking for but you could use a
system call to pkill

Andrew Timberlake
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