z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

Localization
Usage notes
Exit Values
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Portability
kill –s KILL –– –9812753
The format must include the –– before the –nn in order to specify the
process group ID.
If pid is 0, the signal is sent to all processes in the process group of the
invoker.
The process to be killed must belong to the current user, unless he or she is the
superuser.
kill uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F for more information.
1. kill is a built-in shell command.
2. z/OS UNIX signal delivery restrictions are documented in the ″Environmental
Restrictions″ section of z/OS UNIX System Services Programming: Assembler
Callable Services Reference.
0 Successful completion
1 Failure due to one of the following:
v The job or process did not exist
v There was an error in command-line syntax
2 Failure due to one of the following:
v Two jobs or processes did not exist
v Incorrect command-line argument
v Incorrect signal
>2 Tells the number of processes that could not be killed
Possible error messages include:
job-identifier is not a job
You specified an incorrect ID.
signal_name is not a valid signal
You specified a noninteger signal for kill, or you specified a signal that is
outside the range of valid signal numbers.
POSIX.2, X/Open Portability Guide.
kill
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