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NuttShell (NSH)

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Last Updated: February 28, 2011

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Last Updated: March 1, 2011

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Synopsis. - Send the to the task identified by . + Send the <signal> to the task identified by <pid>.

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+ NOTE: + NuttX does not support a FULL POSIX signalling system. + Standard signals like SIGCHLD, SIGINTR, SIGKILL, etc. do not exist in NuttX and sending those signal may not have the result that you expect. + Rather, NuttX supports only what are referred to as POSIX real-time signals. + These signals may be used to communicate with running tasks, may be use to waiting waiting tasks, etc. + But, as an example, kill -9 (SIGKILL) will not terminate a task. +