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In computing, kill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kill (command) | Developers | Various open-source and commercial developers | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | License | ReactOS: LGPL-2.1-or-later | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, OS-9, Windows, ReactOS, Singularity, IBM i | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | Original author | AT&T Bell Laboratories | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | Platform | Cross-platform | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | Release | February 1973; 53 years ago (1973-02) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Kill (command) | Type | Command | 1.00 | infobox |
| IRIX | instance of | On some systems | 0.80 | text |
| Linux | instance of | On some systems | 0.80 | text |
| and FreeBSD | instance of | On some systems | 0.80 | text |
| an argument is supplied specifying the name of the process | instance of | On some systems | 0.80 | text |
| an instance of the XMMS music player invoked byxmms | instance of | to kill a process | 0.80 | text |
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