Kill Process

Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. To stop a running process, usually spoken casually in incident and debugging work. In engineering slang, 'kill the process' can be ordinary triage or a sign that the system lacks gentler control paths.

    In plain English: To stop a running process.

    Example: "They had to kill process on the stuck importer because it held the lock forever and ignored the ordinary shutdown path."

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