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# posix_kill

(3.0.13 - 3.0.18 only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

posix_kill -- Send a signal to a process

## Description

``bool posix_kill` (int pid, int sig)`

Send the signal `sig` to the process with the process identifier `pid`. Returns `FALSE`, if unable to send the signal, `TRUE` otherwise.

See also the kill(2) manual page of your POSIX system, which contains additional information about negative process identifiers, the special pid 0, the special pid -1, and the signal number 0.

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