.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" This module is believed to contain source code proprietary to AT&T. .\" Use and redistribution is subject to the Berkeley Software License .\" Agreement and your Software Agreement with AT&T (Western Electric). .\" .\" @(#)kill.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" .TH KILL 3F "June 5, 1993" .UC 5 .SH NAME kill \- send a signal to a process .SH SYNOPSIS .B function kill (pid, signum) .br .B integer pid, signum .SH DESCRIPTION .I Pid must be the process id of one of the user's processes. .I Signum must be a valid signal number (see sigvec(2)). The returned value will be 0 if successful; an error code otherwise. .SH FILES .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a .el /usr/lib/libU77.a .SH "SEE ALSO" kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(3F), fork(3F), perror(3F)