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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>1999-06-18 10:24:12 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>1999-06-18 10:24:12 +0000
commitca9807fc17a636f9c44d344b502f7f81ad1dca94 (patch)
tree8b39d6b4020ccd469106e6481444a429a20f90b2 /lib/libc
parent1681d65976b242ed2223f0640bd1f3c27a4a1721 (diff)
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/kill.211
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
index 6234bc15886e..24a43915ea58 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
-.\" $Id: kill.2,v 1.6 1997/02/22 15:03:55 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: kill.2,v 1.7 1997/04/11 18:47:03 bde Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dt KILL 2
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ this is a variant of
.It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 :
If the user has super-user privileges,
the signal is sent to all processes excluding
-system processes and the process sending the signal.
+system processes
+.Pq whose have Dv P_SYSTEM flag set ,
+process with ID 1
+.Pq usually Xr init 8 ,
+and the process sending the signal.
If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes
with the same uid as the user excluding the process sending the signal.
No error is returned if any process could be signaled.
@@ -124,7 +128,8 @@ of the group could not be signaled.
.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
.Xr getpid 2 ,
.Xr killpg 2 ,
-.Xr sigaction 2
+.Xr sigaction 2 ,
+.Xr init 8
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn kill