tkill, tgkill — send a signal to a thread
int
tkill( |
int | tid, |
| int | sig); |
int
tgkill( |
int | tgid, |
| int | tid, | |
| int | sig); |
tgkill() sends the signal
sig to the thread
with the thread ID tid in the thread group
tgid. (By contrast,
kill(2) can only be used to
send a signal to a process (i.e., thread group) as a whole,
and the signal will be delivered to an arbitrary thread
within that process.)
tkill() is an obsolete
predecessor to tgkill(). It
only allows the target thread ID to be specified, which may
result in the wrong thread being signaled if a thread
terminates and its thread ID is recycled. Avoid using this
system call.
If tgid is
specified as −1, tgkill()
is equivalent to tkill().
These are the raw system call interfaces, meant for internal thread library use.
On success, zero is returned. On error, −1 is
returned, and errno is set
appropriately.
An invalid TID or signal was specified.
Permission denied. For the required permissions, see kill(2).
No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists.
tkill() and tgkill() are Linux-specific and should not
be used in programs that are intended to be portable.
See the description of CLONE_THREAD in clone(2) for an explanation
of thread groups.
Glibc does not provide wrappers for these system calls; call them using syscall(2).
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http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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