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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/killpg.3 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/killpg.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a1463167 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/killpg.3 @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC +.\" +.\" @(#)killpg.2 6.5 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 +.\" +.\" Modified Fri Jul 23 21:55:01 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 08:11:14 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" Modified 2004-06-16 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Added notes on CAP_KILL +.\" Modified 2004-06-21 by aeb +.\" +.TH killpg 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +killpg \- send signal to a process group +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <signal.h> +.PP +.BI "int killpg(int " pgrp ", int " sig ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR killpg (): +.nf + _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 +.\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR killpg () +sends the signal +.I sig +to the process group +.IR pgrp . +See +.BR signal (7) +for a list of signals. +.PP +If +.I pgrp +is 0, +.BR killpg () +sends the signal to the calling process's process group. +(POSIX says: if +.I pgrp +is less than or equal to 1, the behavior is undefined.) +.PP +For the permissions required to send a signal to another process, see +.BR kill (2). +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I sig +is not a valid signal number. +.TP +.B EPERM +The process does not have permission to send the signal +to any of the target processes. +For the required permissions, see +.BR kill (2). +.TP +.B ESRCH +No process can be found in the process group specified by +.IR pgrp . +.TP +.B ESRCH +The process group was given as 0 but the sending process does not +have a process group. +.SH VERSIONS +There are various differences between the permission checking +in BSD-type systems and System\ V-type systems. +See the POSIX rationale for +.BR kill (3p). +A difference not mentioned by POSIX concerns the return +value +.BR EPERM : +BSD documents that no signal is sent and +.B EPERM +returned when the permission check failed for at least one target process, +while POSIX documents +.B EPERM +only when the permission check failed for all target processes. +.SS C library/kernel differences +On Linux, +.BR killpg () +is implemented as a library function that makes the call +.IR "kill(\-pgrp,\ sig)" . +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD +(first appeared in 4BSD). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR getpgrp (2), +.BR kill (2), +.BR signal (2), +.BR capabilities (7), +.BR credentials (7) |