Man Page kill.3f

NAME

     kill - send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS

     function kill (pid, signum)
     integer pid, signum

DESCRIPTION

     The argument pid must be the process id of one of the user's
     processes.

     The argument signum must be a valid signal number.  See sig-
     nal(3).

     The returned value is 0 if successful, an error code  other-
     wise.

     This function merely sends a signal to a  process;  it  does
     not necessarily kill the process.

FILES

     libfui.a

SEE ALSO

     kill(2), signal(3c), signal(3F), fork(3F), perror(3F)