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Sun Studio 12: Fortran Library Reference

1.4.30 kill: Send a Signal to a Process

The function is called by:

status = kill( pid, signum )

pid

INTEGER*4

Input 

Process ID of one of the user’s processes 

signum

INTEGER*4

Input 

Valid signal number. See signal(3).

Return value 

INTEGER*4

Output 

status=0: OK

status>0: Error code

Example (fragment): Send a message using kill():


       INTEGER*4 kill, pid, signum
*    …
       status = kill( pid, signum )
       if ( status .ne. 0 ) stop ’kill: error’
       write(*,*) ’Sent signal ’, signum, ’ to process ’, pid
       end

The function sends signal signum, and integer signal number, to the process pid. Valid signal numbers are listed in the C include file /usr/include/sys/signal.h

See also: kill(2), signal(3), signal(3F), fork(3F), and perror(3F).