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 signal(3F).

The returned value is 0 if successful, an error code otherwise.

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

Files

libfsu.a

See Also

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