MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

kill(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities kill(1)
Operands
kill accepts the following operands:
job-identifier
is the job identifier reported by the shell when a process is started with &. It is one
way to identify a process. It is also reported by the jobs command.
pid is the process
ID that the shell reports when a process is started with &. You can also
find it using the ps command.
The killed process must belong to the current user, unless he or she is the system administrator
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 Failure due to one of the following:
— job or process did not exist — error in command line syntax
2 Failure due to one of the following:
— invalid command line argument — invalid signal.
Messages
Message: "job-identifier"isnotajob
Cause: You specified a job-identifier that is not valid.
Action: Specify a valid job-identifier.
Message: pid: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: "signal" is not a valid signal
Cause: You specified a non-integer signal for kill that was not a valid signal name, or
you specified a signal that is outside the range of valid signal numbers.
Action: Make sure that you specify a valid signal number or name for signal.
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.
MPE/iX NOTES
For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this
utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.
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