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From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
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Subject: Re: programming: how to send signal to other program 
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> How can I send a signal (say, SIGUSR1) to another program with known pid? I
> used to do so in Solaris using sigsend() but this call seems not available
> in FreeBSD.

Use kill(2), and don't send learner questions to -hackers.


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