s6-frontend
Software
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The s6-frontend-helper-kill internal program

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 instead of the POSIX kill program, because the latter does not support sending arbitrary numerical signals.

Interface

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

• 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 codes

0

Success

100

Wrong usage