Generating Signals (The GNU C Library) (original) (raw)

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24.6 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
• Signaling Another Process
• Permission for using kill
• Using kill for Communication