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kill(2)

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kill(3)  —  Subroutines

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NAME

kill − send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS

function kill (pid, signum)
integer pid, signum

DESCRIPTION

Pid must be the process id of one of the user’s processes.  Signum must be a valid signal number (see sigvec(2)).  The returned value will be 0 if successful; an error code otherwise. 

FILES

/usr/lib/libU77.a

RELATED INFORMATION

kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(3), fork(3), perror(3)

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