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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd March 15, 2012
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.Dt KILL 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm kill
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.Nd send signal to a process
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In signal.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn kill
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system call sends the signal given by
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.Fa sig
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to
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.Fa pid ,
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a
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process or a group of processes.
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The
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.Fa sig
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argument
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may be one of the signals specified in
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.Xr sigaction 2
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or it may be 0, in which case
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error checking is performed but no
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signal is actually sent.
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This can be used to check the validity of
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.Fa pid .
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.Pp
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For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated
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by
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.Fa pid ,
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the user must be the super-user, or
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the real or saved user ID of the receiving process must match
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the real or effective user ID of the sending process.
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A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent
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to any process with the same session ID as the sender.
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In addition, if the
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.Va security.bsd.conservative_signals
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.Xr sysctl
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is set to 1, the user is not a super-user, and
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the receiver is set-uid, then
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only job control and terminal control signals may
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be sent (in particular, only SIGKILL, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGALRM,
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SIGSTOP, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGTSTP, SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2).
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero :
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The
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.Fa sig
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signal
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is sent to the process whose ID is equal to
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.Fa pid .
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is zero :
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The
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.Fa sig
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signal
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is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal
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to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the
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process has permission;
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this is a variant of
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.Xr killpg 2 .
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.It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 :
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If the user has super-user privileges,
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the signal is sent to all processes excluding
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system processes
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(with
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.Dv P_SYSTEM
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flag set),
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process with ID 1
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(usually
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.Xr init 8 ) ,
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and the process sending the signal.
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If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes
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with the same uid as the user excluding the process sending the signal.
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No error is returned if any process could be signaled.
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.El
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.Pp
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For compatibility with System V,
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if the process number is negative but not -1,
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the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID
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is equal to the absolute value of the process number.
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This is a variant of
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.Xr killpg 2 .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std kill
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn kill
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system call
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will fail and no signal will be sent if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa sig
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argument
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is not a valid signal number.
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by
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.Fa pid .
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The sending process does not have permission to send
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.Va sig
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to the receiving process.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
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.Xr getpid 2 ,
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.Xr killpg 2 ,
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.Xr sigaction 2 ,
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.Xr sigqueue 2 ,
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.Xr raise 3 ,
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.Xr init 8
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn kill
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system call is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn kill
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function appeared in
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.At v7 .
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