killall(1M)killall(1M)NAMEkillall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
[signal]
DESCRIPTION
is a procedure used by to kill all active processes not directly
related to the shutdown procedure.
is chiefly used to terminate all processes with open files so that the
mounted file systems are no longer busy and can be unmounted. sends
the specified signal to all user processes in the system, with the fol‐
lowing exceptions:
the process;
all processes (including background processes) associated with
the terminal from which was invoked;
any process, if owned by
any process, if owned by
any process;
any process;
any process.
obtains its process information from and therefore may not be able to
perfectly identify which processes to signal (see ps(1)).
If no signal is specified, a default of (kill) is used.
is invoked automatically by The use of is recommended over using by
itself (see shutdown(1M)).
FILESSEE ALSOfuser(1M), kill(1), ps(1), shutdown(1M), signal(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCEkillall(1M)