NAME

pthread_kill —

send a signal to a specified thread

LIBRARY

POSIX Threads Library (libpthread, -lpthread)

SYNOPSIS

#include <pthread.h>
#include <signal.h>

int
pthread_kill(pthread_t thread, int sig);

DESCRIPTION

The pthread_kill() 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, pthread_kill() returns 0. Otherwise, an error number is returned.

ERRORS

The pthread_kill() function will fail if:

[ESRCH]: thread is an invalid thread ID.
[EINVAL]: sig is an invalid or unsupported signal number.

STANDARDS

The pthread_kill() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (“POSIX.1”)