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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-06-23 04:55:48 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-06-23 04:55:48 +0000
commitfd8b5a75b968805b16716e0e8b4f435c6a4b87e3 (patch)
tree7768dbda647482b6c1b56af3a1f2c495cf030515 /bin/kill
parentf31e7c6390ee02ba0d93618bca1f08a4f744b2eb (diff)
- kill exists as a built-in to most shells, not just csh
- .Xr sh 1 ok millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/kill')
-rw-r--r--bin/kill/kill.117
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bin/kill/kill.1 b/bin/kill/kill.1
index 89d4657e799..64c29f3d308 100644
--- a/bin/kill/kill.1
+++ b/bin/kill/kill.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.23 2003/06/02 23:32:08 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: kill.1,v 1.24 2003/06/23 04:55:47 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kill.1,v 1.8 1995/09/07 06:30:26 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -120,23 +120,19 @@ ALRM (alarm clock)
TERM (software termination signal)
.El
.Pp
-A signal number of 0 (kill -0 pid) checks the validity of a
-certain pid, to see if it exists.
+A signal number of 0 (kill \-0 pid) checks the validity of a
+certain PID, to see if it exists.
An exit code of 0 means that the specified process exists.
.Pp
The
.Nm
-utility is built-in to
-.Xr csh 1 ;
-it allows job specifiers of the form
+utility exists as a built-in to most shells;
+they allow job specifiers of the form
.Dq %...
-as arguments
+as arguments,
so process IDs are not as often used as
.Nm
arguments.
-See
-.Xr csh 1
-for details.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Li $ kill -9 1234
.Pp
@@ -152,6 +148,7 @@ daemon the hangup signal, instructing it to re-read its configuration from
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr ps 1 ,
+.Xr sh 1 ,
.Xr kill 2 ,
.Xr sigaction 2
.Sh STANDARDS