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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
| commit | d7b87853ad02031845dedc2e4eb43470f70629b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6711d6705a3d61a8fc1398a0e93943d2c24e793f /bin/kill/kill.1 | |
| parent | 0e57f2a299667350f0094976659b7e7f6dee3478 (diff) | |
First complete sweep of man pages, bin/. Command/function names previously
(incorrectly) capatilized are fixed. Comma splices, hyphenations, SYNOPSIS
cleanups, other miscellaneous typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/kill/kill.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/kill/kill.1 | 32 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/bin/kill/kill.1 b/bin/kill/kill.1 index 739fdc7658a..3e8e75af5d0 100644 --- a/bin/kill/kill.1 +++ b/bin/kill/kill.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.3 1996/12/24 19:17:10 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.4 1998/09/14 22:13:48 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: kill.1,v 1.8 1995/09/07 06:30:26 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 @@ -46,22 +46,24 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm kill .Op Fl s Ar signal_name -.Ar pid -\&... +.Ar PID +.Ar \&... .Nm kill .Fl l .Op Ar exit_status .Nm kill .Fl signal_name -.Ar pid -\&... +.Ar PID +.Ar \&... .Nm kill .Fl signal_number -.Ar pid -\&... +.Ar PID +.Ar \&... .Sh DESCRIPTION -The kill utility sends a signal to the processes specified -by the pid operand(s). +The +.Nm kill +utility sends a signal to the processes specified +by the PID operand(s). .Pp Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes. .Pp @@ -86,7 +88,8 @@ of the default .Dv TERM . .El .Pp -The following pids have special meanings: +The following PIDs have special meanings: +.Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact .It -1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise broadcast @@ -94,6 +97,7 @@ to all processes belonging to the user. .El .Pp Some of the more commonly used signals: +.Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact .It 1 HUP (hang up) @@ -111,11 +115,11 @@ ALRM (alarm clock) TERM (software termination signal) .El .Pp -.Nm Kill -is a built-in to -.Xr csh 1 ; +.Nm kill +is built-in to +.Xr csh 1 ; it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments -so process id's are not as often used as +so process IDs are not as often used as .Nm kill arguments. See |