This is an example of the kill.d DTrace script, # kill.d FROM COMMAND SIG TO RESULT 2344 bash 2 3117 0 2344 bash 9 12345 -1 ^C In the above output, a kill -2 (Ctrl-C) was sent from the bash command to PID 3177. Then a kill -9 (SIGKILL) was sent to PID 12345 - which returned a "-1" for failure.