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TKILL(2)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  TKILL(2)



NAME
       tkill, tgkill - send a signal to a thread

SYNOPSIS
       int tkill(int tid, int sig);

       int tgkill(int tgid, int tid, int sig);

DESCRIPTION
       tgkill()  sends  the  signal sig to the thread with the thread ID tid in the thread
       group tgid.  (By contrast, kill(2) can only be used to send a signal to  a  process
       (i.e.,  thread  group) as a whole, and the signal will be delivered to an arbitrary
       thread within that process.)

       tkill() is an obsolete predecessor to tgkill().  It only allows the  target  thread
       ID to be specified, which may result in the wrong thread being signaled if a thread
       terminates and its thread ID is recycled.  Avoid using this system call.

       If tgid is specified as -1, tgkill() is equivalent to tkill().

       These are the raw system call interfaces, meant for internal thread library use.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropri-
       ately.

ERRORS
       EINVAL An invalid thread ID, thread group ID, or signal was specified.

       EPERM  Permission denied.  For the required permissions, see kill(2).

       ESRCH  No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists.

VERSIONS
       tkill()  is  supported  since  Linux  2.4.19  / 2.5.4.  tgkill() was added in Linux
       2.5.75.

CONFORMING TO
       tkill() and tgkill() are Linux-specific and should not be used in programs that are
       intended to be portable.

NOTES
       See  the  description  of  CLONE_THREAD  in  clone(2)  for an explanation of thread
       groups.

       Glibc does not provide wrappers for these system calls; call them using syscall(2).

SEE ALSO
       clone(2), gettid(2), kill(2)

COLOPHON
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       the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at  http://www.ker-
       nel.org/doc/man-pages/.



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