Summary

Immediately stops a given process.

Assembly

NAnt.Contrib.dll

Namespace

NAnt.Contrib.Tasks

Base Types

graph BT Type-->Base0["Task"] Type["KillTask"] class Type type-node

Syntax

[TaskName("kill")]
public class KillTask : Task

Starts a server and a client process on the local computer, and stops the server process once the client process has finished executing.

    <exec program="server.exe" pidproperty="server.pid" spawn="true" />
<exec program="client.exe" />
<kill pid="${server.pid}" />

When used in combination with the ExecTask, it allows processed to be spawned for a certain duration or task, and then stopped.

Type	Description
TaskName

Name	Value	Summary
Machine	string	The name of the computer on the network on which the process must be stopped. The default is the local computer.
ProcessId	int	The unique identifier of the process to stop.
TimeOut	int	The maximum amount of time to wait until the process is stopped, expressed in milliseconds. The default is to wait indefinitely.

Name	Value	Summary
ExecuteTask()	void