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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-15 11:46:06 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-15 11:46:06 +0000
commit85c9ba7c594c9e1658e20053dcd00403e6e314e2 (patch)
treeb9cba2183a2d7100b412afdd5c1220359e582d77 /lib/libc/sys/kill.2
parent66c4835634f1e74242f62bb59553d61059dc1a46 (diff)
- For consistency, `super-user' -> `superuser' in all cases.
- Some punctuation fixes. - Some `id' -> `ID'.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/kill.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/kill.28
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
index 314fa12096d..6fd0065f654 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.11 1999/06/29 14:10:04 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.12 2000/04/15 11:46:03 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ by
.Fa pid ,
the real or effective user ID of the receiving process must match
that of the sending process or the user must have appropriate privileges
-(such as given by a set-user-ID program or the user is the super-user).
+(such as given by a set-user-ID program or the user is the superuser).
A single exception is the signal
.Dv SIGCONT ,
which may always be sent
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ process has permission;
this is a variant of
.Xr killpg 3 .
.It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 :
-If the user has super-user privileges,
+If the user has superuser privileges,
the signal is sent to all processes excluding
system processes and the process sending the signal.
If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ No process can be found corresponding to that specified by
The process ID was given as 0
but the sending process does not have a process group.
.It Bq Er EPERM
-The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
+The sending process is not the superuser and its effective
user ID does not match the effective user ID of the receiving process.
When signaling a process group, this error is returned if any members
of the group could not be signaled.