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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
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        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)kill.2      6.5 (Berkeley) 5/14/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH KILL 2 "May 14, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: kill \- send signal to a process
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .ft B
        !            13: kill(pid, sig)
        !            14: .br
        !            15: int pid, sig;
        !            16: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            17: .I Kill
        !            18: sends the signal \fIsig\fP
        !            19: to a process, specified by the process number
        !            20: .IR pid .
        !            21: .I Sig
        !            22: may be one of the signals specified in
        !            23: .IR sigvec (2),
        !            24: or it may be 0, in which case
        !            25: error checking is performed but no
        !            26: signal is actually sent. 
        !            27: This can be used to check the validity of
        !            28: .IR pid .
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: The sending and receiving processes must
        !            31: have the same effective user ID, otherwise
        !            32: this call is restricted to the super-user.
        !            33: A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent
        !            34: to any descendant of the current process.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: If the process number is 0,
        !            37: the signal is sent to all processes in the
        !            38: sender's process group; this is a variant of
        !            39: .IR killpg (2).
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: If the process number is \-1
        !            42: and the user is the super-user,
        !            43: the signal is broadcast universally
        !            44: except to system processes
        !            45: and the process sending the signal.
        !            46: If the process number is \-1
        !            47: and the user is not the super-user,
        !            48: the signal is broadcast universally to
        !            49: all processes with the same uid as the user
        !            50: except the process sending the signal.
        !            51: No error is returned if any process could be signaled.
        !            52: .PP
        !            53: For compatibility with System V,
        !            54: if the process number is negative but not \-1,
        !            55: the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID
        !            56: is equal to the absolute value of the process number.
        !            57: This is a variant of
        !            58: .IR killpg (2).
        !            59: .PP
        !            60: Processes may send signals to themselves.
        !            61: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            62: Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
        !            63: Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
        !            64: .I errno
        !            65: is set to indicate the error.
        !            66: .SH "ERRORS
        !            67: .I Kill
        !            68: will fail and no signal will be sent if any of the following
        !            69: occur:
        !            70: .TP 15
        !            71: [EINVAL]
        !            72: \fISig\fP is not a valid signal number.
        !            73: .TP 15
        !            74: [ESRCH]
        !            75: No process can be found corresponding to that specified by \fIpid\fP.
        !            76: .TP 15
        !            77: [ESRCH]
        !            78: The process id was given as 0
        !            79: but the sending process does not have a process group.
        !            80: .TP 15
        !            81: [EPERM]
        !            82: The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
        !            83: user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process.
        !            84: When signaling a process group, this error was returned if any members
        !            85: of the group could not be signaled.
        !            86: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            87: getpid(2), getpgrp(2), killpg(2), sigvec(2)

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