[android-developers] Re: How to execute KILL -9 pID command

Look at
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES

But I do agree with Mark. Please don't write anything like that.

On Aug 4, 5:20 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, vinaykant <vinaykant.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am new baby in android development and developing an application
> > which will KILL a running application (ex. com.example.helloWorld).
>
> Please don't.
>
> > I tried process.getruntime().exec("kill -9 211"), here 211 is the pID
> > which I am able to get.
>
> > But the process.getruntime().exec command giving me permission error
> > as the current user is not having permission.
>
> Correct. You can't kill processes.
>
> > Please can any one help me out to get the permission through the
> > programmatic ?
>
> You can't.
>
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