kill (8) ( Русские man: Команды системного администрирования )
BSD mandoc
NAME
kill
- send signal to a process
LIBRARY
Lb libc
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h> int
kill (pid_t pid int sig);
DESCRIPTION
The
kill ();
system call sends the signal given by
Fa sig
to
Fa pid ,
a
process or a group of processes.
The
Fa sig
argument
may be one of the signals specified in
sigaction(2)
or it may be 0, in which case
error checking is performed but no
signal is actually sent.
This can be used to check the validity of
Fa pid .
For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated
by
Fa pid ,
the real or effective user ID of the receiving process must match
that of the sending process or the user must have appropriate privileges
(such as given by a set-user-ID program or the user is the super-user).
A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent
to any process with the same session ID as the caller.
If Fa pid is greater than zero
The
Fa sig
signal
is sent to the process whose ID is equal to
Fa pid .
If Fa pid is zero
The
Fa sig
signal
is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal
to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the
process has permission;
this is a variant of
killpg(2).
If Fa pid is -1
If the user has super-user privileges,
the signal is sent to all processes excluding
system processes
(with
P_SYSTEM
flag set),
process with ID 1
(usually
init(8)),
and the process sending the signal.
If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes
with the same uid as the user excluding the process sending the signal.
No error is returned if any process could be signaled.
For compatibility with System V,
if the process number is negative but not -1,
the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID
is equal to the absolute value of the process number.
This is a variant of
killpg(2).
RETURN VALUES
Rv -std kill
ERRORS
The
kill ();
system call
will fail and no signal will be sent if:
Bq Er EINVAL
The
Fa sig
argument
is not a valid signal number.
Bq Er ESRCH
No process can be found corresponding to that specified by
Fa pid .
Bq Er ESRCH
The process id was given as 0
but the sending process does not have a process group.
Bq Er EPERM
The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process.
When signaling a process group, this error is returned if any members
of the group could not be signaled.
