.\" $OpenBSD: thrkill.2,v 1.1 2015/11/10 04:30:59 guenther Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: November 10 2015 $ .Dt THRKILL 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm thrkill .Nd send signal to a thread in the same process .Sh SYNOPSIS .In signal.h .Ft int .Fn thrkill "pid_t tid" "int sig" "void *tcb" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn thrkill function sends the signal given by .Fa sig to .Fa tid , a thread in the same process as the caller. .Fn thrkill will only succeed if .Fa tcb is either .Dv NULL or the address of the thread control block (TCB) of the target thread. .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. .Pp If .Fa tid is zero then the current thread is targeted. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std .Sh ERRORS .Fn thrkill 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 The process doesn't have a thread with thread ID .Fa tid . .It Bq Er ESRCH .Fa tcb is not .Dv NULL and not the TCB address of the thread with thread ID .Fa tid . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr __get_tcb 2 , .Xr kill 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr pthread_kill 3 , .Xr raise 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn __thrsigdivert function is specific to .Ox and should not be used in portable applications. Use .Xr pthread_kill 3 instead. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn thrkill system call appeared in .Ox 5.9 .