# How to stop a process started with \`@spawnat :any\`
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-process-started-with-spawnat-any/64023
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** parallel
**Created:** [July 4, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-process-started-with-spawnat-any/64023 "2021-07-04T07:28:28Z")
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### Author:  [@AtsushiSakai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AtsushiSakai)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-process-started-with-spawnat-any/64023/1 "2021-07-04T07:28:28Z")
Suppose I start a parallel task with:
`future = @spawnat :any do_very_long_time_process()`
How can I stop the process using the `future`?
There is [Distributed.interrupt](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Distributed/#Distributed.interrupt), but it needs `pid`.
In other words, how can I get `pid` from a `future`?
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But these are for `Task`, not `Future`.
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### Author:  [@findmyway](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/findmyway)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-process-started-with-spawnat-any/64023/2 "2021-07-04T08:13:43Z")
`Future` has a `where` field.
```julia
* `where` - refers to the node where the underlying object/storage
referred to by the reference actually exists.
```
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### Author:  [@AtsushiSakai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AtsushiSakai)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-process-started-with-spawnat-any/64023/3 "2021-07-05T12:04:49Z")
Oh. Thanks. This code works:
```julia
interrupt(future.where)
```