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+.\" $OpenBSD: thrkill.2,v 1.2 2016/03/19 21:56:12 guenther Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 19 2016 $
+.Dt THRKILL 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm thrkill
+.Nd send signal to a thread in the same process
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In signal.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn thrkill "pid_t tid" "int sig" "void *tcb"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn thrkill
+function sends the signal given by
+.Fa sig
+to
+.Fa tid ,
+a thread in the same process as the caller.
+.Fn thrkill
+will only succeed if
+.Fa tcb
+is either
+.Dv NULL
+or the address of the thread control block (TCB) of the target thread.
+.Fa sig
+may be one of the signals specified in
+.Xr sigaction 2
+or it may be 0, in which case
+error checking is performed but no
+signal is actually sent.
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa tid
+is zero then the current thread is targeted.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn thrkill
+will fail and no signal will be sent if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa sig
+is not a valid signal number.
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+The process doesn't have a thread with thread ID
+.Fa tid .
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+.Fa tcb
+is not
+.Dv NULL
+and not the TCB address of the thread with thread ID
+.Fa tid .
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr __get_tcb 2 ,
+.Xr kill 2 ,
+.Xr sigaction 2 ,
+.Xr pthread_kill 3 ,
+.Xr raise 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn thrkill
+function is specific to
+.Ox
+and should not be used in portable applications.
+Use
+.Xr pthread_kill 3
+instead.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn thrkill
+system call appeared in
+.Ox 5.9 .