SIGCONT may be sent to any process with the same session ID as the caller,

not to any process that is a descendant of the current process.

from ryan younce (freebsd pr #58710);
confirmed by otto and ok

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.3 b/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.3
index d070d01981c..50ba18430ec 100644
--- a/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.3
+++ b/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: killpg.3,v 1.9 2003/06/02 20:18:33 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: killpg.3,v 1.10 2006/10/11 12:37:09 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd March 10, 1991
 .Dt KILLPG 3
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The sending process and members of the process group must
 have the same effective user ID, or
 the sender must be the superuser.
 As a single special case the continue signal SIGCONT may be sent
-to any process that is a descendant of the current process.
+to any process with the same session ID as the caller.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
 Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and the global variable
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
index c507fa247d7..9a94675ec8a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.15 2003/06/02 20:18:39 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.16 2006/10/11 12:37:09 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ that of the sending process or the user must have appropriate privileges
 A single exception is the signal
 .Dv SIGCONT ,
 which may always be sent
-to any descendant of the current process.
+to any process with the same session ID as the caller.
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero :
 .Fa sig