Name

kill − send a signal to a process

Syntax

function kill (pid, signum)
integer pid, signum

Description

The pid argument must be the process id of one of the user processes.  The signum argument must be a valid signal number.  For further information, see sigvec(.).

Return Value

The returned value will be 0 if successful and an error code otherwise. 

Files

/usr/lib/libU77.a

See Also

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