| Name: | kill - send a signal to another process
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| Synopsis: | PID SIGNAL kill -> -
PID /SIGNAL kill -> -
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| Description: | The "kill" function sends a signal to a process or a group
of processes specified by "PID". If the signal is zero,
error checking is performed but no signal is actually sent.
This can be used to check for a valid PID.
SIGNAL may be given either as an integer value or as the
literal name of the signal, as found in "signaldict".
Alternative: Functions kill_i_i for integer (SIGNAL),
kill_i_l for literal (SIGNAL) (both undocumented)
-> behaviour and synopsis are the same.
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| Parameters: | In : PID(integer):
The ID of the process that shall be signalled.
If "PID" is greater than zero, "SIGNAL" is sent to the
process whose ID is "PID".
(If "PID" is negative, "SIGNAL" is sent to all processes
whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value
of "PID". - Process groups are usually used by the
shell program only.)
SIGNAL(integer):
The number of the signal to be sent.
Signal codes are machine-dependent values, so do not
rely on any given value! The valid signal codes for
your machine are compiled into the "signaldict"
dictionary, where they can be looked up by
their literal names.
The only value you may rely on is zero:
If SIGNAL is zero, error checking is performed
but no signal is actually sent.
This can be used to check for a valid PID.
/SIGNAL(literal):
The literal name of the signal to be sent.
This name is automatically looked up in "signaldict"
and substituted to it's corresponding value prior
to a call to wait.
Out: -none-.
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| Examples: | 1. 23 /SIGTERM kill %send TERM signal to Process 23
2. %This is equivalent to 1. :
signaldict begin
23 SIGTERM kill
end
3. (xterm) 2 system %star an xterm-process
/SIGKILL kill %kill it again
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| Bugs: | -
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| Author: | R Kupper
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| FirstVersion: | Apr 27 1999
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| Remarks: | "kill" can be used to send ANY signal, but it's most oftenly used
to terminate another process. Hence the name.
Resolution of literal signal names is done by a trie defined
in file processes.sli.
Description taken mainly from "POSIX Programmer's Guide",
D. Lewine, O'Reilly & Assoc. Inc.
| SeeAlso: | signaldict system sysexec wait waitPID spoon fork getPPID getPGRP |
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| Source: | /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/sli/processes.h
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