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Old 06-19-2007
kill(0,-9) don't kill the process

Hi all
i have simple c program , when i wish to kill the app
im using kill(0,-9) , but it seams this command don't do any thing and the program.
just ignore it .
what im doing wrong here ?
im using HP-UX ia64

Thanks
# 2  
Old 06-19-2007
You can kill a program with command:
kill -9 <PID of programme>
If you can not necessary permission about programme, You won't kill a programme.

Best regards,
Iliyan Varshilov

Last edited by ilko_partizan; 06-19-2007 at 04:45 AM..
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Old 06-19-2007
i need to kill from c program
# 4  
Old 06-19-2007
If you need killing a process from C programme, You will read about system call 'kill'.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html

Best regards,
Iliyan Varshilov

Last edited by ilko_partizan; 06-19-2007 at 05:42 AM..
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Old 06-19-2007
hi
i have read it also read this :
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node24...00000000000000
that helped me understand this is my code:

Code:
int k=kill(getpid(),-9);
int r=raise(-9);

the return codes from k and r is -1
that is it proform the kill command but failled , the question is why ?
the getpid() also returns the right pid .
so what can i do next ?
how can i catch errno msg?
what else i can do to understand what is wrong ?

thanks
# 6  
Old 06-19-2007
You can get a error in string format from your programme with function 'strerror'.
This is part of code you needed:

Code:
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>

fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s\n", strerror(errno));

This man page describes 'errno'.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html

This man page describes 'strerror'.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html

Best regards,
Iliyan Varshilov

Last edited by ilko_partizan; 06-19-2007 at 05:07 AM..
# 7  
Old 06-19-2007
You can some mistakes in your code:

The first mistakes in line - 'kill(getpid(),-9);'
In the Unix basic systems have not a signal with id '-9', but have a signal with id '9'.
Try with int k=kill(getpid(),SIGKILL);

The second mistakes is similar that first - 'int r=raise(-9);' .

The third mistakes:
You don't kill process whit 'raise', because process one killed from 'k=kill(getpid(),SIGKILL);'

Do you really need killing a current process ?

Best regards,
Iliyan Varshilov

Last edited by ilko_partizan; 06-19-2007 at 07:23 AM..
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