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At least for killing there is an xmlrpc shutdown call, which is what rosnode kill uses.

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At least for killing there is an xmlrpc shutdown call, which is what rosnode kill ~~uses.~~uses. That is probably the ROS'iest way to do it. Sending SIGINT would also be OK as ROS installs a SIGINT handler.

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