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+.\"	$NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"     @(#)kill.2	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
+.\"
+.Dd April 19, 1994
+.Dt KILL 2
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm kill
+.Nd send signal to a process
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <signal.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn kill
+function sends the signal given by
+.Fa sig
+to
+.Fa pid ,
+a
+process or a group of processes.
+.Fa Sig
+may be one of the signals specified in
+.Xr 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 .
+.Pp
+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 descendant of the current process.
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero :
+.Fa Sig
+is sent to the process whose ID is equal to
+.Fa pid.
+.It \&If Fa pid No \&is zero :
+.Fa Sig
+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
+.Xr killpg 2 .
+.It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 :
+If the user has super-user privileges,
+the signal is sent to all processes excluding
+system processes 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.
+.El
+.Pp
+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
+.Xr killpg 2 .
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
+Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn Kill
+will fail and no signal will be sent if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa Sig
+is not a valid signal number.
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+No process can be found corresponding to that specified by
+.Fa pid .
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+The process id was given as 0
+but the sending process does not have a process group.
+.It 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.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getpid 2 ,
+.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
+.Xr killpg 2 ,
+.Xr sigaction 2
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn kill
+function is expected to conform to 
+.St -p1003.1-88 .