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4.4 KiB
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132 lines
4.4 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.20 2004/05/13 10:20:58 wiz Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\"
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.Dd April 19, 1994
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.Dt KILL 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm kill
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.Nd send signal to a process
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In signal.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn kill
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function sends the signal given by
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.Fa sig
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to
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.Fa pid ,
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a
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process or a group of processes.
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.Fa sig
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may be one of the signals specified in
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.Xr sigaction 2
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or it may be 0, in which case
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error checking is performed but no
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signal is actually sent.
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This can be used to check the validity of
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.Fa pid .
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.Pp
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For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated
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by
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.Fa pid ,
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the real or effective user ID of the receiving process must match
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that of the sending process or the user must have appropriate privileges
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(such as given by a set-user-ID program or the user is the super-user).
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A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent
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to any descendant of the current process.
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero :
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.Fa sig
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is sent to the process whose ID is equal to
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.Fa pid .
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is zero :
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.Fa sig
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is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal
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to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the
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process has permission;
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this is a variant of
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.Xr killpg 3 .
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is \-1 :
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If the user has super-user privileges,
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the signal is sent to all processes excluding
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system processes and the process sending the signal.
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If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes
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with the same uid as the user excluding the process sending the signal.
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No error is returned if any process could be signaled.
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.El
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.Pp
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For compatibility with System V,
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if the process number is negative but not \-1,
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the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID
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is equal to the absolute value of the process number.
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This is a variant of
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.Xr killpg 3 .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
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Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn kill
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will fail and no signal will be sent if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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.Fa sig
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is not a valid signal number.
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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No process can be found corresponding to that specified by
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.Fa pid .
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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The process id was given as 0
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but the sending process does not have a process group.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
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user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process.
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When signaling a process group, this error is returned if any members
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of the group could not be signaled.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
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.Xr getpid 2 ,
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.Xr sigaction 2 ,
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.Xr killpg 3 ,
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.Xr signal 7
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn kill
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function is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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