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FpKill function

In unit BaseUnix

Send a signal to a process.

Declaration

pascal
function FpKill(pid: TPid; sig: cint): cint

Description

fpKill sends a signal Sig to a process or process group. If Pid>0 then the signal is sent to Pid, if it equals -1, then the signal is sent to all processes except process 1. If Pid<-1 then the signal is sent to process group -Pid.

The return value is zero, except in case three, where the return value is the number of processes to which the signal was sent.

Errors

Extended error information can be retrieved using fpGetErrno:

sys_einval
An invalid signal is sent.
sys_esrch
The Pid or process group don't exist.
sys_eperm
The effective userid of the current process doesn't math the one of process Pid.

See also

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