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2015-01-16Document behavior of killing process 0, matching the text in kill(2).Todd C. Miller
From Theo Buehler
2014-10-13jmc@ found another manpage i broke when i touched inetd.David Gwynne
use kill -HUP 1 as an example of a hangup signal that does something useful and non-contrived. ok jmc@
2014-03-23note that the last two usage forms are marked xsi; ok millertJason McIntyre
2010-12-23document EXIT STATUS; based on a diff from Daniel DickmanJason McIntyre
ok millert
2009-02-08bump the posix reference in STANDARDS to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, with a fewJason McIntyre
updates to follow;
2009-01-06i saw the previous was wrong as soon as i committed it: put theJason McIntyre
built-in blurb in STANDARDS; we did once have a COMPATIBILITY section which we merged with STANDARDS, so i think this is appropriate. it certainly feels better than adding single sentences randomly to the end of text bodies.
2009-01-06document, consistently, those apps which also exist as built-insJason McIntyre
on certain shells; do not try to document changes between the implementations, but at least warn of their existence; diff from Ingo Schwarze
2007-11-01there is a reason why the argument to -l is "exit_status": as well asJason McIntyre
showing the names of signals, it may also convert the exit status of commands terminated by signals to their names. flesh out the description of -l accordingly. issue spotted by
2007-08-06the ellipsis is not an optional argument; while here, sync the usageIgor Sobrado
and synopsis of commands lots of good ideas by jmc@ ok jmc@
2007-05-31convert to new .Dd format;Jason McIntyre
2007-05-29- consistent STANDARDS blurbJason McIntyre
- note which options are extensions to POSIX discussed w/ deraadt otto millert
2007-03-03sort the options list; from Igor SobradoJason McIntyre
2004-07-06- more consistent macrosJason McIntyre
- descriptions of examples before examples, and indent examples - direct people to sigaction(2) for complete list of signals - .Xr pkill 1 - simplify a list from jared yanovich, and some bits from me;
2004-04-04.br workaround no longer necessary;Jason McIntyre
2003-06-23- kill exists as a built-in to most shells, not just cshJason McIntyre
- .Xr sh 1 ok millert@
2003-06-02Remove the advertising clause in the UCB license which BerkeleyTodd C. Miller
rescinded 22 July 1999. Proofed by myself and Theo.
2003-03-12more .LiTheo de Raadt
2002-11-14use $ or # before commands in examplesTheo de Raadt
2002-06-05document pgid usage; ok millert@Jason Peel
2002-02-11Initial patch.Mike Pechkin
When you give command examples in a manual page prefix them with $ command or # command deraadt@ ok
2002-01-24as early as v3 it seems to beMichael Shalayeff
2002-01-24this both were in v4, before v6Michael Shalayeff
2001-12-09Fix an incorrect example, reported by Gaƫl Queri <gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr>Miod Vallat
2000-10-18Add some rudimentary EXAMPLES sections and standardize the way we displayAaron Campbell
existing EXAMPLES sections.
2000-06-28document signal 0Theo de Raadt
2000-04-15- For consistency, `super-user' -> `superuser' in all cases.Aaron Campbell
- Some punctuation fixes. - Some `id' -> `ID'.
2000-03-17Remove hard sentence breaks.Aaron Campbell
1999-09-23Formatting tweaks.Aaron Campbell
1999-08-17consistencyAaron Campbell
1999-08-16more precise SYNOPSIS syntaxAaron Campbell
1999-06-04start to remove non-escaped trailing whitespace, it can confuse troff; pjanzen@Aaron Campbell
1998-12-15always give .Nm macros an argument in SYNOPSIS sections; krw@tcn.netAaron Campbell
1998-11-28start killing redundant .Nm macro arguments (mandoc ``remembers'' the first oneAaron Campbell
it's given)
1998-11-06use .Dq/.Sq macros instead of `` ''s and ` 's (think typesetting and futureAaron Campbell
processing); kill redundant .Pp macros; other misc fixes
1998-09-14First complete sweep of man pages, bin/. Command/function names previouslyAaron Campbell
(incorrectly) capatilized are fixed. Comma splices, hyphenations, SYNOPSIS cleanups, other miscellaneous typos.
1996-12-24ref sigactionTheo de Raadt
1996-06-23update rcsidTheo de Raadt
1995-10-18initial import of NetBSD treeTheo de Raadt