.PVM.kill {rpvm}R Documentation

Kill pvm process

Description

Terminate a specified PVM process.

Usage

.PVM.kill(tids)

Arguments

tids task ids of the PVM processes to be killded.

Details

.PVM.kill sends a terminate (SIGTERM) signal to the PVM process identified by tid. It is not designed to kill the calling process. To kill your self, call .PVM.exit() followed by q().

Value

Return number of processes successfully killed.

Author(s)

Na (Michael) Li nali@umn.edu and A.J. Rossini rossini@u.washington.edu

References

PVM documentation

See Also

.PVM.exit

Examples

## kill one of spawned children
## Not run: .PVM.kill (children[1])

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