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diff --git a/man/man2/tkill.2 b/man/man2/tkill.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9bbf722fe --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/tkill.2 @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2008 Michael Kerrisk <tmk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" and Copyright 2003 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" 2004-05-31, added tgkill, ahu, aeb +.\" 2008-01-15 mtk -- rewrote DESCRIPTION +.\" +.TH tkill 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +tkill, tgkill \- send a signal to a thread +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <signal.h>" " /* Definition of " SIG* " constants */" +.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.P +.BI "[[deprecated]] int syscall(SYS_tkill, pid_t " tid ", int " sig ); +.P +.B #include <signal.h> +.P +.BI "int tgkill(pid_t " tgid ", pid_t " tid ", int " sig ); +.fi +.P +.IR Note : +glibc provides no wrapper for +.BR tkill (), +necessitating the use of +.BR syscall (2). +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR tgkill () +sends the signal +.I sig +to the thread with the thread ID +.I tid +in the thread group +.IR tgid . +(By contrast, +.BR kill (2) +can be used to send a signal only to a process (i.e., thread group) +as a whole, and the signal will be delivered to an arbitrary +thread within that process.) +.P +.BR tkill () +is an obsolete predecessor to +.BR tgkill (). +It allows only the target thread ID to be specified, +which may result in the wrong thread being signaled if a thread +terminates and its thread ID is recycled. +Avoid using this system call. +.\" FIXME Maybe say something about the following: +.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12889 +.\" +.\" Quoting Rich Felker <bugdal@aerifal.cx>: +.\" +.\" There is a race condition in pthread_kill: it is possible that, +.\" between the time pthread_kill reads the pid/tid from the target +.\" thread descriptor and the time it makes the tgkill syscall, +.\" the target thread terminates and the same tid gets assigned +.\" to a new thread in the same process. +.\" +.\" (The tgkill syscall was designed to eliminate a similar race +.\" condition in tkill, but it only succeeded in eliminating races +.\" where the tid gets reused in a different process, and does not +.\" help if the same tid gets assigned to a new thread in the +.\" same process.) +.\" +.\" The only solution I can see is to introduce a mutex that ensures +.\" that a thread cannot exit while pthread_kill is being called on it. +.\" +.\" Note that in most real-world situations, like almost all race +.\" conditions, this one will be extremely rare. To make it +.\" measurable, one could exhaust all but 1-2 available pid values, +.\" possibly by lowering the max pid parameter in /proc, forcing +.\" the same tid to be reused rapidly. +.P +These are the raw system call interfaces, meant for internal +thread library use. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and \fIerrno\fP +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EAGAIN +The +.B RLIMIT_SIGPENDING +resource limit was reached and +.I sig +is a real-time signal. +.TP +.B EAGAIN +Insufficient kernel memory was available and +.I sig +is a real-time signal. +.TP +.B EINVAL +An invalid thread ID, thread group ID, or signal was specified. +.TP +.B EPERM +Permission denied. +For the required permissions, see +.BR kill (2). +.TP +.B ESRCH +No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists. +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +.TP +.BR tkill () +Linux 2.4.19 / 2.5.4. +.TP +.BR tgkill () +Linux 2.5.75, +glibc 2.30. +.SH NOTES +See the description of +.B CLONE_THREAD +in +.BR clone (2) +for an explanation of thread groups. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR clone (2), +.BR gettid (2), +.BR kill (2), +.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2) |