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killpg(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 						killpg(3C)

NAME
killpg - send signal to a process group SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> int killpg(pid_t pgrp, int sig); DESCRIPTION
The killpg() function sends the signal sig to the process group pgrp. See signal.h(3HEAD) for a list of signals. The real or effective user ID of the sending process must match the real or saved set-user ID of the receiving process, unless the effec- tive user ID of the sending process is the privileged user. A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent to any descendant of the current process. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The killpg() function will fail and no signal will be sent if: EINVAL The sig argument is not a valid signal number. EPERM The effective user ID of the sending process is not privileged user, and neither its real nor effective user ID matches the real or saved set-user ID of one or more of the target processes. ESRCH No processes were found in the specified process group. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
kill(2), setpgrp(2), sigaction(2), signal.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 24 Jul 2002 killpg(3C)

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KILLPG(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 KILLPG(2)

NAME
killpg - send signal to a process group SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> int killpg(int pgrp, int sig); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): killpg(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 DESCRIPTION
killpg() sends the signal sig to the process group pgrp. See signal(7) for a list of signals. If pgrp is 0, killpg() sends the signal to the calling process's process group. (POSIX says: If pgrp is less than or equal to 1, the behavior is undefined.) For a process to have permission to send a signal it must either be privileged (under Linux: have the CAP_KILL capability), or the real or effective user ID of the sending process must equal the real or saved set-user-ID of the target process. In the case of SIGCONT it suf- fices when the sending and receiving processes belong to the same session. RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
EINVAL Sig is not a valid signal number. EPERM The process does not have permission to send the signal to any of the target processes. ESRCH No process can be found in the process group specified by pgrp. ESRCH The process group was given as 0 but the sending process does not have a process group. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.4BSD (the killpg() function call first appeared in 4BSD), POSIX.1-2001. NOTES
There are various differences between the permission checking in BSD-type systems and System V-type systems. See the POSIX rationale for kill(). A difference not mentioned by POSIX concerns the return value EPERM: BSD documents that no signal is sent and EPERM returned when the permission check failed for at least one target process, while POSIX documents EPERM only when the permission check failed for all tar- get processes. On Linux, killpg() is implemented as a library function that makes the call kill(-pgrp, sig). SEE ALSO
getpgrp(2), kill(2), signal(2), capabilities(7), credentials(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2007-07-26 KILLPG(2)
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