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#$EPIC: killpid.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/01 03:55:07 sthalik Exp $

Synopsis:

$killpid(<signal> <pid> […<pid>])

Technical:

This function sends a signal to one or more pids

Practical:

This allows sending signals to other processes without having to used exec to invoke the kill command.

Returns:

The number of processes to which the signal was successfully sent.

History:

This function was added in EPIC4-1.1.6