PTHREAD_KILL(3) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_KILL(3)NAMEpthread_kill - send a signal to a specified thread
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.
ERRORSpthread_kill() will fail if:
[ESRCH] thread is an invalid thread ID.
[EINVAL] sig is an invalid or unsupported signal number.
SEE ALSOkill(2), pthread_self(3), raise(3)STANDARDSpthread_kill() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX'')
OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9