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(3)).  The returned value will be 0 if successful; an error code otherwise.

Note that this function just sends a message; it does not necessarily kill the process.  Some users have been known to consider this a UNIX misnomer, but what do they know?  If you really mean to kill a process, you do:
 
kill( pid, SIGKILL )
 

FILES

libF77.a

SEE ALSO

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

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 12 June 1990