signal.sys_tkill
Name
signal.sys_tkill — Sending a kill signal to a thread
Synopsis
signal.sys_tkill
Values
sig_name
- The specific signal sent to the process
sig
- The specific signal sent to the process
pid
- The PID of the process receiving the kill signal
Description
The
tkill
call is analogous to kill(2)
, except that it also allows a process within a specific thread group to be targetted. Such processes are targetted through their unique thread IDs (TID).