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 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

libF77.a

SEE ALSO

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

SunOS 5.0  —  Last change: 23 March 1998