probe::signal.sys_tkill
Sending a kill signal to a thread
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SYNOPSIS
signal.sys_tkill
VALUES
sig_name
A string representation of the signal
sig
The specific signal sent to the process
name
Name of the probe point
pid_name
The name of the signal recipient
task
A task handle to the signal recipient
sig_pid
The PID of the process receiving the kill signal
DESCRIPTION
The tkill call is analogous to kill(2), except that it also allows a process within a specific thread group to be targeted. Such processes are targeted through their unique thread IDs (TID).