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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/kill.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/kill.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 index 04c51723f8a..0f1d1e3e8aa 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.8 1999/05/25 13:06:46 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: kill.2,v 1.9 1999/06/05 04:16:08 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: kill.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:33:53 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ No error is returned if any process could be signaled. .Pp Setuid and setgid processes are dealt with slightly differently. For the non-root user, to prevent attacks against such processes, some signal -deliveries are not permitted and return the error EPERM. +deliveries are not permitted and return the error +.Er EPERM . The following signals are allowed through to this class of processes: .Em SIGKILL , .Em SIGINT , @@ -128,11 +129,11 @@ is not a valid signal number. No process can be found corresponding to that specified by .Fa pid . .It Bq Er ESRCH -The process id was given as 0 +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 -user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process. +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. .El |