.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" %sccs.include.proprietary.roff% .\" .\" @(#)kill.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/05/93 .\" .TH KILL 3F "" .UC 5 .SH NAME kill \- send a signal to a process .SH SYNOPSIS .B function kill (pid, signum) .br .B integer pid, signum .SH DESCRIPTION .I Pid must be the process id of one of the user's processes. .I Signum must be a valid signal number (see sigvec(2)). The returned value will be 0 if successful; an error code otherwise. .SH FILES .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a .el /usr/lib/libU77.a .SH "SEE ALSO" kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(3F), fork(3F), perror(3F)