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authorMichael Kerrisk2016-12-04 17:44:55 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk2016-12-05 16:51:07 +0100
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docs: various pages: Use "system call" not "syscall"
A minor wording fix... Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index d638ead6c..e7e2b6ba5 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ then it can obtain this data via the si_sigval field of the siginfo_t structure.
It is not possible to send a signal to an explicitly selected thread in a
multithreaded process using the
.BR kill (2)
-syscall. If
+system call. If
.BR kill (2)
is used to send a signal to a thread group, then the kernel selects an arbitrary
member of the thread group that has not blocked the signal. For more details
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ the CLONE_THREAD description.
.PP
The command
.BR kill (1)
-as well as syscall
+as well as system call
.BR kill (2)
accept a TID (thread ID, see
.BR gettid (2))