The GNU C Library - Generating Signals

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Generating Signals

Besides signals that are generated as a result of a hardware trap or interrupt, your program can explicitly send signals to itself or to another process.

Signaling Yourself A process can send a signal to itself.
Signaling Another Process Send a signal to another process.
Permission for kill Permission for using kill .
Kill Example Using kill for Communication.


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