pthread_kill()

Send a signal to a thread

Synopsis:

#include <signal.h>

int pthread_kill( pthread_t thread,
                  int sig );

Arguments:

thread: The ID of the thread that you want to send the signal to, which you can get when you call pthread_create() or pthread_self().
sig: The signal that you want to send, or 0 if you just want to check for errors.
If the signal terminates a process, the cleanup of the terminated process occurs by default at the priority of the thread that sent the signal. As a QNX Neutrino extension, if you OR the SIG_TERMER_NOINHERIT flag (defined in <signal.h>) into sig, the cleanup occurs at the priority of the thread that received the signal.

Library:

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

Description:

The pthread_kill() function sends the signal sig to the thread thread. The target thread and calling thread must be in the same process. If sig is zero, error checking is performed but no signal is sent.

Returns:

EOK: Success.
EAGAIN: Insufficient system resources are available to deliver the signal.
EINVAL: Invalid signal number sig.
ESRCH: Invalid thread ID thread.

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1

Safety:
Cancellation point	No
Interrupt handler	No
Signal handler	Yes
Thread	Yes