Module kill 

Process-tree termination (zx kill(pid, signal)).

Constants

SIGTERM

Default signal for kills and timeouts.

Functions

descendants

Pids of all descendants of pid (children first, depth-first), using ps.

kill

Kill a process and all of its descendants (zx kill()).

kill_tree

Send signal to pid, all of its descendants and its process group.

parse_signal

Normalise a signal given as SIGTERM, TERM or a number.

signal_name

Name (SIGTERM, …) of a numeric signal, if it is known.

validate_pid

Validate a pid given as text: it must consist of ASCII digits only.