minix man page for kill

KILL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KILL(1)

NAME
       kill - send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS
       kill [-n] process

OPTIONS
       -n     Signal number to send

       -NAME  Named signal to send

EXAMPLES
       kill 35		   # Send signal 15 to process 35

       kill -9 40	   # Send signal 9 to process 40

       kill -2 0	   # Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group

       kill -HUP -123	   # Send a hangup to process group 123

DESCRIPTION
       A  signal  is  sent to a given process.	By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent.  Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process
       group.  A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process group ID.	Signals may be numerical, or the name of the  sig-
       nal without SIG.

SEE ALSO
       kill(2), sigaction(2).

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