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authorMichael Kerrisk2016-12-04 20:44:04 +0100
committerKarel Zak2016-12-09 13:45:09 +0100
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docs: various pages: Use "PID" not "pid" in man-pages
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/kill.112
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/unshare.12
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index c8363554e..8cc31cd5e 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ options, and the possibility to specify processes by command name, are local ext
If \fIsignal\fR is 0, then no actual signal is sent, but error checking is still performed.
.SH ARGUMENTS
-The list of processes to be signaled can be a mixture of names and pids.
+The list of processes to be signaled can be a mixture of names and PIDs.
.TP
.I pid
Each
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ can be one of four things:
.I n
where
.I n
-is larger than 0. The process with pid
+is larger than 0. The process with PID
.I n
is signaled.
.TP
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ is signaled.
All processes in the current process group are signaled.
.TP
.B -1
-All processes with a pid larger than 1 are signaled.
+All processes with a PID larger than 1 are signaled.
.TP
.BI - n
where
@@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ Similar to \fB\-l\fR, but it will print signal names and their corresponding
numbers.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR
-Do not restrict the command-name-to-pid conversion to processes with the same
+Do not restrict the command-name-to-PID conversion to processes with the same
uid as the present process.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-pid\fR
-Only print the process ID (pid) of the named processes, do not send any
+Only print the process ID (PID) of the named processes, do not send any
signals.
.TP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR
-Print pid(s) that will be signaled with kill along with the signal.
+Print PID(s) that will be signaled with kill along with the signal.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue\fR \fIvalue\fR
Use
diff --git a/sys-utils/unshare.1 b/sys-utils/unshare.1
index 9479f597c..ee58c7d63 100644
--- a/sys-utils/unshare.1
+++ b/sys-utils/unshare.1
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ and the discussion of the
flag in
.BR clone (2).
.TP
-.BR "pid namespace"
+.BR "PID namespace"
Children will have a distinct set of PID-to-process mappings from their parent.
For further details, see
.BR pid_namespaces (7)