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Yes, you do want to use kill.
by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 15, 2002 at 05:48 UTC

    Perhaps if you'd actually read the documentation for kill . . .

    Update: BECAUSE IF YOU'D READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR kill YOU'D SEE THAT kill 0, $pid DOESN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCESS EXISTS.

    Sorry for not explicitly spelling that out for those down voting this. /me mourns the death of the Socratic method . . .