PAGE DATE 19990425

DESCRIPTION
The general mechanism for interprocess communication is called signals. The kill command might have been more accurately named "signal". kill sends a SIGTERM by default, but can send any signal, and kill -9 < process_id > sends a SIGKILL. 9 is the signal number for SIGKILL. see "section 7" signal for the list.

The kernel calls underlying the signal mechanism are documented in "section 2" signal and the call-specific seedocs.....

RIGHTS
This seedoc page is Copyright 1999 Richard Allen Hohensee, and is released for redistribution only as part of a complete cLIeNUX Core.