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1 perry 1 KILLPG
2 !!!KILLPG
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 RETURN VALUE
7 ERRORS
8 CONFORMING TO
9 SEE ALSO
10 ----
11 !!NAME
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13
14 killpg - send signal to all members of a process group.
15 !!SYNOPSIS
16
17
18 __#include
19 __ ''pidgrp''__, int__ ''signal''__);
20 __
21 !!DESCRIPTION
22
23
24 The __killpg()__ function causes signal ''signal'' to
25 be sent to all the processes in the process group
26 ''pidgrp'' or to the processes' own process group if
27 ''pidgrp'' is equal to zero.
28
29
30 It is equivalent to
31
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33 __kill(-__''pidgrp''__,__''signal''__);
34 __
35 !!RETURN VALUE
36
37
38 The value returned is -1 on error, or 0 for
39 success.
40 !!ERRORS
41
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43 Errors are returned in ''errno'' and can be one of the
44 following:
45
46
47 __EINVAL__
48
49
50 for an invalid signal,
51
52
53 __ESRCH__
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56 for a process group which does not exist, and
57
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59 __EPERM__
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62 if the userid of the calling process is not equal to that of
63 the process the signal is sent to, and the userid is not
64 that of the superuser.
65 !!CONFORMING TO
66
67
68 ???
69 !!SEE ALSO
70
71
72 kill(2), signal(2),
73 signal(7)
74 ----
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