PTHREADKIL(2)             BSD System Calls Manual            PTHREADKIL(2)

NAME
     pthreadkill -- send a signal to a specified thread

SYNOPSIS
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     int
     pthreadkill(pthreadt thread, int sig);

DESCRIPTION
     The pthreadkill() function sends a signal, specified by sig, to a
     thread, specified by thread.  If sig is 0, error checking is performed,
     but no signal is actually sent.

RETURN VALUES
     If successful, pthreadkill() returns 0.  Otherwise, an error number is
     returned.

ERORS
     pthreadkill() will fail if:

     [ESRCH]            thread is an invalid thread ID.

     [EINVAL]           sig is an invalid or unsupported signal number.

SEE ALSO
     kill(2), pthreadself(3), raise(3)

STANDARDS
     pthreadkill() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX.1'')

BSD                              Feb 05, 2002                              BSD