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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-09-23 10:50:46 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-09-23 10:50:46 +0000
commit5d47bb9369b2e36d346424f9cc3ec178aab8c4ea (patch)
tree8dffeb87545d80a2c79c138a32fa6789d02a90dc /bin/kill/kill.1
parent1ef2460013144e09c1ec9353942a099ffbaa80fc (diff)
Formatting tweaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/kill/kill.1')
-rw-r--r--bin/kill/kill.118
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bin/kill/kill.1 b/bin/kill/kill.1
index 906ecad1f79..40aa2bb5a22 100644
--- a/bin/kill/kill.1
+++ b/bin/kill/kill.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.10 1999/08/17 14:04:00 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.11 1999/09/23 10:50:45 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kill.1,v 1.8 1995/09/07 06:30:26 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -62,10 +62,13 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-utility sends a signal to the processes specified
+utility sends a signal to the process(es) specified
by the
.Ar pid
operand(s).
+If no signal is specified,
+.Dv SIGTERM
+is used.
.Pp
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
.Pp
@@ -91,15 +94,15 @@ of the default
.Pp
The following PIDs have special meanings:
.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
-.It -1
-If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise broadcast
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
+.It \-1
+If super-user, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise, broadcast
to all processes belonging to the user.
.El
.Pp
Some of the more commonly used signals:
.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
.It 1
HUP (hang up)
.It 2
@@ -116,8 +119,9 @@ ALRM (alarm clock)
TERM (software termination signal)
.El
.Pp
+The
.Nm
-is built-in to
+utility is built-in to
.Xr csh 1 ;
it allows job specifiers of the form
.Dq %...