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44 .Nd send a signal to the current process
48 .Fd #include <signal.h>
54 function sends the signal
56 to the current process.
58 Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
59 Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and the global variable
61 is set to indicate the error.
68 for any of the errors specified for the