| kill.2 (84306) | kill.2 (108028) |
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| 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 84306 2001-10-01 16:09:29Z ru $ | 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 108028 2002-12-18 09:22:32Z ru $ |
| 34.\" 35.Dd April 19, 1994 36.Dt KILL 2 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm kill 40.Nd send signal to a process 41.Sh LIBRARY 42.Lb libc 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.In sys/types.h 45.In signal.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn kill | 34.\" 35.Dd April 19, 1994 36.Dt KILL 2 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm kill 40.Nd send signal to a process 41.Sh LIBRARY 42.Lb libc 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.In sys/types.h 45.In signal.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn kill |
| 51function sends the signal given by | 51system call sends the signal given by |
| 52.Fa sig 53to 54.Fa pid , 55a 56process or a group of processes. 57.Fa Sig 58may be one of the signals specified in 59.Xr sigaction 2 --- 43 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 103if the process number is negative but not -1, 104the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID 105is equal to the absolute value of the process number. 106This is a variant of 107.Xr killpg 2 . 108.Sh RETURN VALUES 109.Rv -std kill 110.Sh ERRORS | 52.Fa sig 53to 54.Fa pid , 55a 56process or a group of processes. 57.Fa Sig 58may be one of the signals specified in 59.Xr sigaction 2 --- 43 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 103if the process number is negative but not -1, 104the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID 105is equal to the absolute value of the process number. 106This is a variant of 107.Xr killpg 2 . 108.Sh RETURN VALUES 109.Rv -std kill 110.Sh ERRORS |
| 111.Fn Kill | 111The 112.Fn kill 113system call |
| 112will fail and no signal will be sent if: 113.Bl -tag -width Er 114.It Bq Er EINVAL 115.Fa Sig 116is not a valid signal number. 117.It Bq Er ESRCH 118No process can be found corresponding to that specified by 119.Fa pid . --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 131.Xr getpid 2 , 132.Xr killpg 2 , 133.Xr sigaction 2 , 134.Xr raise 3 , 135.Xr init 8 136.Sh STANDARDS 137The 138.Fn kill | 114will fail and no signal will be sent if: 115.Bl -tag -width Er 116.It Bq Er EINVAL 117.Fa Sig 118is not a valid signal number. 119.It Bq Er ESRCH 120No process can be found corresponding to that specified by 121.Fa pid . --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 133.Xr getpid 2 , 134.Xr killpg 2 , 135.Xr sigaction 2 , 136.Xr raise 3 , 137.Xr init 8 138.Sh STANDARDS 139The 140.Fn kill |
| 139function call is expected to conform to | 141system call is expected to conform to |
| 140.St -p1003.1-90 . 141.Sh HISTORY | 142.St -p1003.1-90 . 143.Sh HISTORY |
| 142A | 144The |
| 143.Fn kill | 145.Fn kill |
| 144function call appeared in | 146function appeared in |
| 145.At v7 . | 147.At v7 . |