probe::signal.sys_tkill
Sending a kill signal to a thread
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SYNOPSIS
signal.sys_tkill
VALUES
task
A task handle to the signal recipient
sig_name
A string representation of the signal
pid_name
The name of the signal recipient
sig_pid
The PID of the process receiving the kill signal
name
Name of the probe point
sig
The specific signal sent to the process
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).