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From: andrew@ugh.net.au
To: "Tsang, Victor YF" <Victor.YF.Tsang@cwhkt.com>
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Subject: Re: programming: how to send signal to other program
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tsang, Victor YF wrote:

> 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.

kill(2)

Andrew



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