S6-FRONTEND-HELPER-KILL(8)

NAME
s6-frontend-helper-kill - send numerical signals to a given list of pids

SYNOPSIS
s6-frontend-helper-kill sig pids...

DESCRIPTION
s6-frontend-helper-kill is a small utility to send numerical signals to a given list of pids. It is not meant to be called directly, although nothing bad will happen if you do. It is used in command lines crafted by ‘s6 process kill’ (cf. s6_process(8)) instead of the POSIX kill[1] program, because the latter does not support sending arbitrary numerical signals.

s6-frontend-helper-kill reads an integer, sig, and a list of one or more integers, pids..., on its command line.

It sends signal number sig to all the processes listed as pids....

EXIT STATUS

0   Success

100 Wrong usage

SEE ALSO
s6-frontend-overview(7), s6_process(8)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/kill.html

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/s6-frontend-helper-kill.html

AUTHORS
Laurent Bercot Lennart Jablonka <humm@ljabl.com> (man page port)