add virKillProcess

ChangeLog

+Tue Jan  6 18:44:34 CET 2009 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
+
+	add virKillProcess
+	* src/util.[ch] (virKillProcess): new function
+	* src/libvirt_private.syms: add symbol
+
 Tue Jan  6 18:14:31 CET 2009 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
 
 	trivial cleanups

src/libvirt_private.syms

@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ virParseNumber;
 virAsprintf;
 virRun;
 virSkipSpaces;
+virKillProcess;
 
 
 # uuid.h

src/util.c

@@ -1337,3 +1337,14 @@ int virDiskNameToIndex(const char *name) {
 
     return idx;
 }
+
+/* send signal to a single process */
+int virKillProcess(pid_t pid, int sig)
+{
+    if (pid < 1) {
+        errno = ESRCH;
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    return kill(pid, sig);
+}

src/util.h

@@ -166,4 +166,6 @@ static inline int getuid (void) { return 0; }
 static inline int getgid (void) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
+int virKillProcess(pid_t pid, int sig);
+
 #endif /* __VIR_UTIL_H__ */