Thread: my kill() wont work

hi im working in UNIX and what im doing here is storing the pid's into a queue and then using this process for killing X amount of pids, however when ever it reaches this point it always outputs " Killed" and kills the whole thing not the pid that is put into temp

i have changed kill(temp, SIGKILL); from kill( Queue[0], SIGKILL); to try make it work but no luck

Code:

			temp = Queue[0];
			kill(temp, SIGKILL);
			for (i = 0; i < top; i++)
			{		
				Queue[i] = Queue[i+1];
			}

im sure im missing something obvious thanks any input would be greatly appreciated

Check the value of temp just before calling kill(). According to man 2 kill, kill() kills multiple processes if the pid supplied is not positive.

Originally Posted by man 2 kill

If pid equals 0, then sig is sent to every process in the process group of the
calling process.

If pid equals -1, then sig is sent to every process for which the calling process
has permission to send signals, except for process 1 (init), but see below.

If pid is less than -1, then sig is sent to every process in the process group
whose ID is -pid.

hi thanks for the replys it was a case of temp holding 0 its all fixed now