

kill()                 COHERENT System Call                kill()




Kill a system process

#include <signal.h>
kkiillll(_p_i_d, _s_i_g)
iinntt _p_i_d, _s_i_g;

kill()  is the  COHERENT system  call  that sends  a signal  to a
process.  pid is the process identifier of the process to be sig-
nalled, and sig  identifies the signal to be sent,  as set in the
header file  signal.h.  This  system call  is most often  used to
kill processes, hence its name.

***** See Also *****

COHERENT system calls, signal(), signal.h









































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