tgkill

TGKILL(2)		   Linux Programmer’s Guide		    TGKILL(2)



NAME
       tgkill - Send signal sig to one specific thread, tgid

SYNOPSIS
       long sys_tgkill (int tgid, int pid, int sig);


DESCRIPTION
       Same as tkill(pid,sig), but only sends the signal if the target thread
       has its thread group ID tgid. Returns error code ESRCH  if  tgid	 does
       not match, otherwise returns the tkill() result.


RETURN VALUE
       tgkill  returns 0 on success; otherwise, tgkill returns one of the er-
       rors listed in the "Errors" section.


ERRORS
       -EINVAL
	      tgkill returns this error if pid or tgid are  less  than	zero.
	      This call is only valid for single tasks.


       -ESRCH This  error  is returned if pid exists but no longer belongs to
	      the target process.


SEE ALSO
       tkill(2), kill(2)



AUTHOR
       Niki Rahimi



Linux 2.6			2004-March-12			    TGKILL(2)