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thr_kill(3thread)


thr_kill -- send a signal to a sibling thread

Synopsis

   cc [options] -Kthread file
   

#include <thread.h>

int thr_kill(thread_t tid, int sig)

Description

thr_kill sends the signal sig to the sibling thread tid.

If tid is blocking signal sig, the signal will become pending for tid.

thr_kill is the thread analog of kill(2).

Parameters


tid
thread ID of the thread to receive the signal

sig
signal number of the signal to be sent

tid parameter

tid is the thread ID of the sibling thread which is to receive the signal. A thread cannot send a signal to a thread in another process (a non-sibling thread).

sig parameter

sig is the signal number of the signal to be sent and is either 0 or a value from the list given in signal(5).

If sig is 0 (the null signal), error checking is performed but no signal is actually sent; this can be used to check the validity of tid.

To maintain integrity of the Threads Library implementation, threads cannot send SIGLWP or SIGWAITING.

Return values

thr_kill returns zero for success and an error number for failure.

Errors

If any of the following conditions occurs, thr_kill returns the corresponding value:

EINVAL
sig is not a valid signal number or is either SIGLWP or SIGWAITING.

ESRCH
tid cannot be found in the current process.

References

Intro(3thread), kill(2), signal(5), sigwait(2), thr_sigsetmask(3thread)
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