Fix kill_process logic to handle process names which contains regex special characters

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    • Type: Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 3.3.6
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    • Component/s: Testing Infrastructure
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    • TIG 14 (05/13/16)
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      The full process name returned from "pgrep -f -l" can return a process which has a embedded regex expressions. Since the full process name is used by pkill, it can fail as these special characters are treated as a regex. It would be better to kill using the process id, via kill.

            Assignee:
            Jonathan Abrahams (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Jonathan Abrahams (Inactive)
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