kill() COHERENT System Call kill() Kill a system process #include <signal.h> kill(pid, sig) int pid, sig; kill() is the COHERENT system call that sends a signal to a process. pid is the process identifier of the process to be sig- nalled, and sig identifies the signal to be sent, as set in the header file signal.h. This system call is most often used to kill processes, hence its name. ***** See Also ***** COHERENT system calls, signal(), signal.h COHERENT Lexicon Page 1