6.121 KILL — Send a signal to a process

Description:

Standard:

Sends the signal specified by SIGNAL to the process PID. See kill(2).

This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however, only one form can be used in any given program unit.

Class:

Subroutine, function

Syntax:

CALL KILL(PID, SIGNAL [, STATUS])

Arguments:

PID	Shall be a scalar INTEGER, with INTENT(IN)
SIGNAL	Shall be a scalar INTEGER, with INTENT(IN)
STATUS	(Optional) status flag of type INTEGER(4) or INTEGER(8). Returns 0 on success, or a system-specific error code otherwise.

See also:

ABORT, EXIT