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

NAME
       killpg - send signal to a process group
SYNOPSIS
       #include <signal.h>
       int killpg(int pgrp, int sig);
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       killpg():
           _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 ||
           _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
DESCRIPTION
       killpg() sends the signal sig to the process group pgrp.  See signal(7)
       for a list of signals.
       If  pgrp  is  0,  killpg()  sends  the  signal to the calling process's
       process group.  (POSIX says: If pgrp is less than or equal  to  1,  the
       behavior is undefined.)
       For  a  process  to  have permission to send a signal it must either be
       privileged (under Linux: have the CAP_KILL capability), or the real  or
       effective  user  ID of the sending process must equal the real or saved
       set-user-ID of the target process.  In the case of SIGCONT it  suffices
       when the sending and receiving processes belong to the same session.
RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
       set appropriately.
ERRORS
       EINVAL sig is not a valid signal number.
       EPERM  The process does not have permission to send the signal  to  any
              of the target processes.
       ESRCH  No process can be found in the process group specified by pgrp.
       ESRCH  The  process  group  was given as 0 but the sending process does
              not have a process group.
CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.4BSD (the killpg()  function  call  first  appeared  in  4BSD),
       POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
       There  are  various differences between the permission checking in BSD-
       type systems and System V-type systems.  See the  POSIX  rationale  for
       kill().   A difference not mentioned by POSIX concerns the return value
       EPERM: BSD documents that no signal is sent and EPERM returned when the
       permission  check  failed  for at least one target process, while POSIX
       documents EPERM only when the permission check failed  for  all  target
       processes.
       On  Linux, killpg() is implemented as a library function that makes the
       call kill(-pgrp, sig).
SEE ALSO
       getpgrp(2), kill(2), signal(2), capabilities(7), credentials(7)
COLOPHON
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