4.3BSD-Reno/src/bin/kill/kill.1

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.Dd July 24, 1990
.Dt KILL 1
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
.Nm kill
.Nd terminate or signal a process
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm kill
.Op Fl signal_name
.Ar pid
\&...
.Nm kill
.Op Fl l
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The kill utility sends a signal to the process(es) specified
by each pid operand. It is used to kill runaway or misbegotten
processes, such as those
.Em backgrounded
with
.Sq Li \&& .
.Nm Kill
is intelligent about who owns a process.
.Pp
Options available:
.Pp
.Tw Ds
.Tp Fl signal_name
A symbolic signal name. To find out all the possible signal names
do a
.Li kill -l .
.Tp Fl l
Available signal names are listed and are as found in
.Pa /usr/include/signal.h ,
stripped of the common SIG prefix.
.Tp Fl signal_number
A (nonnegative) decimal integer, representing the signal
to be used instead of TERM as the sig argument in
the effective call to
.Xr kill 2 .
.Tp
.Pp
Some of the more commonly used signals with kill:
.Ds I
.Cw XXX TERM
.Cl -1	-1	(broadcast to all processes, super user only)
.Cl 0	0	(sh(1) only, signals all members of process group)
.Cl 2	INT	(interupt)
.Cl 3	QUIT	(quit)
.Cl 6	ABRT	(abort)
.Cl 9	KILL	(non-catchable non-ignorable kill)
.Cl 14	ALRM	(alarm clock)
.Cl 15	TERM	(software termination signal)
.Cw
.De
.Pp
.Nm Kill
is a built-in to
.Xr csh  1  ;
it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments
so process id's are not as often used as
.Nm kill
arguments.
See
.Xr csh  1
for details.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr kill 2 ,
.Xr sigvec 2
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm kill
command appeared in Version 6 AT&T Unix.
.Sh BUGS
A replacement for
.Dq Li kill 0
for
.Xr csh  1
users should be provided.