Generating Signals

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Besides signals that are generated as a result of a hardware trap or interrupt, your program can explicitly send signals to itself or to another process.

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• Signaling Yourself :: A process can send a signal to itself.
• Signaling Another Process :: Send a signal to another process.
• Permission for kill :: Permission for using kill.
• Kill Example :: Using kill for Communication.