pthread_kill2

Usage

Overview

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.

[ENOTSUP]

thread was not created by pthread_create() and does not support being killed with pthread_kill()

Legacy synopsis

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

The include file ⟨pthread.h⟩ is necessary.