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From: grx0736@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: killing processes thru' C programs
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.144240.3322@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 14:42:40 EST
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greetings,

does anyone know how to kill processes through C programs
if only the name of the running process is known, and not
its pid. The call  to this function could be something like

	kill_process("process_name");

I would not like to do this by using ps, or by executing a 
shell script from within the C program. 

sunil kulkarni