Is there any way to send signal to a thread from another process?

Question

I want to send a signal from a process to a thread that is created from another process (that have not created the thread.

What I know about this that:

raise: sends signal to same process
pthread_kill can send singal to a thread from same prcess, i.e that created that thread. you cannot use pthread_kill to send a signal to thread from another process.
kill sends signal to a process

Hope I am clear!!! NOTE: I am new to unix and threading

yesterday there was this question, with an example. i think it can be useful in your case http://stackoverflow.com/q/21381451/2549281 — Dabo, Jan 28 '14 at 09:04
You can read about [ZeroMQ](http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all). — Timofey Stolbov, Jan 28 '14 at 09:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 09:02

There is an appropriately named tkill(2):

tkill, tgkill - send a signal to a thread

tgkill() sends the signal sig to the thread with the thread ID tid

You can get a tid using gettid(2).

Beware: the concept of a TID and therefore everything having to do with one is Linux-specific.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 09:00

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answered Jan 28 '14 at 09:00

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