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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Vinod <geekvinod@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: killing an application through code
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If there is only 1 or you wanna kill whatever there is

killall realplay

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Vinod wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how i can kill an application
> process through a piece of C code?
> 
> i have the realplayer application,which has to be
> closed manually with a mouse or using "ctrl-C" or
> using "kill pid".
> But how can i kill it through a piece of code?
> one way is to execute "ps" and then grep 'realplay'
> from it and get the pid and kill it.Isn't there any
> other way i can do this? isn't there something which
> kills from command name like 'kill realplay'?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Vinod
> 
> 
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