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.\" 2004-05-31, added tgkill, ahu, aeb
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.\" 2008-01-15 mtk -- rewrote DESCRIPTION
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.TH TKILL 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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tkill, tgkill \- send a signal to a thread
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.BI "int tkill(int " tid ", int " sig );
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.PP
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.BI "int tgkill(int " tgid ", int " tid ", int " sig );
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.fi
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.PP
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.IR Note :
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There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see NOTES.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR tgkill ()
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sends the signal
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.I sig
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to the thread with the thread ID
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.I tid
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in the thread group
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.IR tgid .
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(By contrast,
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.BR kill (2)
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can be used to send a signal only to a process (i.e., thread group)
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as a whole, and the signal will be delivered to an arbitrary
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thread within that process.)
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.PP
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.BR tkill ()
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is an obsolete predecessor to
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.BR tgkill ().
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It allows only the target thread ID to be specified,
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which may result in the wrong thread being signaled if a thread
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terminates and its thread ID is recycled.
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Avoid using this system call.
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.\" FIXME Maybe say something about the following:
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.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12889
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.\"
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.\" Quoting Rich Felker <bugdal@aerifal.cx>:
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.\"
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.\" There is a race condition in pthread_kill: it is possible that,
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.\" between the time pthread_kill reads the pid/tid from the target
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.\" thread descriptor and the time it makes the tgkill syscall,
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.\" the target thread terminates and the same tid gets assigned
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.\" to a new thread in the same process.
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.\"
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.\" (The tgkill syscall was designed to eliminate a similar race
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.\" condition in tkill, but it only succeeded in eliminating races
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.\" where the tid gets reused in a different process, and does not
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.\" help if the same tid gets assigned to a new thread in the
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.\" same process.)
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.\"
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.\" The only solution I can see is to introduce a mutex that ensures
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.\" that a thread cannot exit while pthread_kill is being called on it.
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.\"
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.\" Note that in most real-world situations, like almost all race
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.\" conditions, this one will be extremely rare. To make it
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.\" measurable, one could exhaust all but 1-2 available pid values,
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.\" possibly by lowering the max pid parameter in /proc, forcing
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.\" the same tid to be reused rapidly.
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.PP
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These are the raw system call interfaces, meant for internal
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thread library use.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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On success, zero is returned.
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On error, \-1 is returned, and \fIerrno\fP
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is set appropriately.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EINVAL
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An invalid thread ID, thread group ID, or signal was specified.
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.TP
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.B EPERM
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Permission denied.
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For the required permissions, see
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.BR kill (2).
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.TP
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.B ESRCH
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No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists.
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.TP
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.B EAGAIN
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The
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.B RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
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resource limit was reached and
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.I sig
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is a real-time signal.
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.TP
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.B EAGAIN
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Insufficient kernel memory was available and
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.I sig
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is a real-time signal.
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.SH VERSIONS
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.BR tkill ()
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is supported since Linux 2.4.19 / 2.5.4.
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.BR tgkill ()
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was added in Linux 2.5.75.
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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.BR tkill ()
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and
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.BR tgkill ()
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are Linux-specific and should not be used
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in programs that are intended to be portable.
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.SH NOTES
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See the description of
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.B CLONE_THREAD
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in
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.BR clone (2)
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for an explanation of thread groups.
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.PP
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Glibc does not provide wrappers for these system calls; call them using
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.BR syscall (2).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR clone (2),
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.BR gettid (2),
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.BR kill (2),
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.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2)
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.SH COLOPHON
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This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux
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.I man-pages
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project.
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A description of the project,
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information about reporting bugs,
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and the latest version of this page,
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can be found at
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\%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.
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