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30.Dd May 5, 2020
31.Dt THR_kill 2
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm thr_kill
35.Nd send signal to thread
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In sys/thr.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn thr_kill "long id" "int sig"
42.Ft int
43.Fn thr_kill2 "pid_t pid" "long id" "int sig"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Fn thr_kill
47and
48.Fn thr_kill2
49system calls allow sending a signal, specified by the
50.Fa sig
51argument, to some threads in a process.
52For the
53.Fn thr_kill
54function, signalled threads are always limited to the current process.
55For the
56.Fn thr_kill2
57function, the
58.Fa pid
59argument specifies the process with threads to be signalled.
60.Pp
61The
62.Fa id
63argument specifies which threads get the signal.
64If
65.Fa id
66is equal to \-1, all threads in the specified process are signalled.
67Otherwise, only the thread with the thread identifier equal to the
68argument is signalled.
69.Pp
70The
71.Fa sig
72argument defines the delivered signal.
73It must be a valid signal number or zero.
74In the latter case no signal is actually sent, and the call is used to
75verify the liveness of the thread.
76.Pp
77The signal is delivered with
78.Dv siginfo
79.Dv si_code
80set to
81.Dv SI_LWP .
82.Sh RETURN VALUES
83If successful,
84.Fn thr_kill
85and
86.Fn thr_kill2
87will return zero, otherwise \-1 is returned, and
88.Va errno
89is set to indicate the error.
90.Sh ERRORS
91The
92.Fn thr_kill
93and
94.Fn thr_kill2
95operations return the following errors:
96.Bl -tag -width Er
97.It Bq Er EINVAL
98The
99.Fa sig
100argument is not zero and does not specify valid signal.
101.It Bq Er ESRCH
102The specified process or thread was not found.
103.El
104.Pp
105Additionally, the
106.Fn thr_kill2
107may return the following errors:
108.Bl -tag -width Er
109.It Bq Er EPERM
110The current process does not have sufficient privilege to check existence or
111send a signal to the specified process.
112.El
113.Sh SEE ALSO
114.Xr kill 2 ,
115.Xr thr_exit 2 ,
116.Xr thr_new 2 ,
117.Xr thr_self 2 ,
118.Xr thr_set_name 2 ,
119.Xr _umtx_op 2 ,
120.Xr pthread_kill 3 ,
121.Xr signal 3
122.Sh STANDARDS
123The
124.Fn thr_kill
125and
126.Fn thr_kill2
127system calls are non-standard and are used by the
128.Lb libthr
129to implement
130.St -p1003.1-2001
131.Xr pthread 3
132functionality.
133.Sh HISTORY
134The
135.Fn thr_kill
136and
137.Fn thr_kill2
138system calls first appeared in
139.Fx 5.2 .
140