KILL(3F) UNIX Programmer's Manual KILL(3F) NAME kill - send a signal to a process SYNOPSIS function kill (pid, signum) integer pid, signum DESCRIPTION _P_i_d must be the process id of one of the user's processes. _S_i_g_n_u_m must be a valid signal number (see sigvec(2)). The returned value will be 0 if successful; an error code other- wise. FILES /usr/lib/libU77.a SEE ALSO kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(3F), fork(3F), perror(3F) Printed 11/26/99 May 15, 1985 1