4.4BSD/usr/share/man/cat1/kill.0

KILL(1)                      BSD Reference Manual                      KILL(1)

NNAAMMEE
     kkiillll - terminate or signal a process

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
     kkiillll [--ssiiggnnaall__nnaammee] _p_i_d ...
     kkiillll [--ssiiggnnaall__nnuummbbeerr] _p_i_d ...
     kkiillll [--ll]

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
     The kill utility sends the TERM signal to the processes specified by the
     pid operand(s).

     Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.

     The options are as follows:

     --ll      List the signal names.

     --ssiiggnnaall__nnaammee
             A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead
             of the default TERM. The --ll option displays the signal names.

     --ssiiggnnaall__nnuummbbeerr
             A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent
             instead of the default TERM.

     Some of the more commonly used signals:

           -1     -1      (super-user broadcast to all processes, or user
                          broadcast to user's processes)
           0      0       (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group)
           2      INT     (interrupt)
           3      QUIT    (quit)
           6      ABRT    (abort)
           9      KILL    (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
           14     ALRM    (alarm clock)
           15     TERM    (software termination signal)

     KKiillll is a built-in to csh(1);  it allows job specifiers of the form
     ``%...'' as arguments so process id's are not as often used as kkiillll argu-
     ments.  See csh(1) for details.

SSEEEE AALLSSOO
     csh(1),  ps(1),  kill(2),  sigvec(2)

HHIISSTTOORRYY
     A kkiillll command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

BBUUGGSS
     A replacement for the command ``kill 0'' for csh(1) users should be pro-
     vided.

4.4BSD                           May 31, 1993                                1