Manual Reference Pages - system_kill (3)
NAME
system_kill(3f) - [M_system:SIGNALS] send a signal to a process or a group of processes (LICENSE:PD)
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Description
Return Value
Errors
Example
See Also
SYNOPSIS
integer(kind=c_int) function system_kill(pid,sig)
integer,intent(in) :: pid integer,intent(in) :: sig
DESCRIPTION
The kill() function shall send a signal to a process or a group of processes specified by pid. The signal to be sent is specified by sig and is either one from the list given in <signal.h> or 0. If sig is 0 (the null signal), error checking is performed but no signal is actually sent. The null signal can be used to check the validity of pid.
For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated by pid, unless the sending process has appropriate privileges, the real or effective user ID of the sending process shall match the real or saved set-user-ID of the receiving process.
If pid is greater than 0, sig shall be sent to the process whose process ID is equal to pid.
If pid is 0, sig shall be sent to all processes (excluding an unspecified set of system processes) whose process group ID is equal to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the process has permission to send a signal.
If pid is -1, sig shall be sent to all processes (excluding an unspecified set of system processes) for which the process has permission to send that signal.
If pid is negative, but not -1, sig shall be sent to all processes (excluding an unspecified set of system processes) whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid, and for which the process has permission to send a signal.
If the value of pid causes sig to be generated for the sending process, and if sig is not blocked for the calling thread and if no other thread has sig unblocked or is waiting in a sigwait() function for sig, either sig or at least one pending unblocked signal shall be delivered to the sending thread before kill() returns.
The user ID tests described above shall not be applied when sending SIGCONT to a process that is a member of the same session as the sending process.
An implementation that provides extended security controls may impose further implementation-defined restrictions on the sending of signals, including the null signal. In particular, the system may deny the existence of some or all of the processes specified by pid.
The kill() function is successful if the process has permission to send sig to any of the processes specified by pid. If kill() fails, no signal shall be sent.
Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned. Otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The kill() function shall fail if:
EINVAL The value of the sig argument is an invalid or unsupported signal number. EPERM The process does not have permission to send the signal to any receiving process. ESRCH No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by pid. The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLE
Sample program:
program demo_system_kill use M_system, only : system_kill use M_system, only : system_perror implicit none integer :: i,pid,ios,ierr,signal=9 character(len=80) :: argumentend program demo_system_killdo i=1,command_argument_count() ! get arguments from command line call get_command_argument(i, argument) ! convert arguments to integers assuming they are PID numbers read(argument,’(i80)’,iostat=ios) pid if(ios.ne.0)then write(*,*)’bad PID=’,trim(argument) else write(*,*)’kill SIGNAL=’,signal,’ PID=’,pid ! send signal SIGNAL to pid PID ierr=system_kill(pid,signal) ! write message if an error was detected if(ierr.ne.0)then call system_perror(’*demo_system_kill*’) endif endif enddo
SEE ALSO
getpid(), raise(), setsid(), sigaction(), sigqueue(),
| system_kill (3) | March 11, 2021 |
