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6 killpg - send signal to a process group
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9 #include <signal.h>
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11 int killpg(int pgrp, int sig);
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13 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
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15 killpg(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
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18 killpg() sends the signal sig to the process group pgrp. See signal(7)
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21 If pgrp is 0, killpg() sends the signal to the calling process's
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25 For a process to have permission to send a signal it must either be
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28 set-user-ID of the target process. In the case of SIGCONT it suffices
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32 On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
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36 EINVAL Sig is not a valid signal number.
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38 EPERM The process does not have permission to send the signal to any
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41 ESRCH No process can be found in the process group specified by pgrp.
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51 There are various differences between the permission checking in BSD-
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53 kill(). A difference not mentioned by POSIX concerns the return value
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63 getpgrp(2), kill(2), signal(2), capabilities(7), credentials(7)
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66 This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project. A
67 description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
68 be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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