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| author | Karel Zak | 2011-02-28 17:15:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-02-28 17:15:40 +0100 |
| commit | a1504d8bf5239c451c3f4e8ab95e312bb60be4e8 (patch) | |
| tree | d56ee267d29109628a5826f03299b87c52999ee7 /misc-utils/kill.1 | |
| parent | kill: translate "-l <num>" to RT<n> (diff) | |
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kill: add -q sigval to use sigqueue(2)
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/kill.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/kill.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1 index 4591f4408..fad706ab5 100644 --- a/misc-utils/kill.1 +++ b/misc-utils/kill.1 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ kill \- terminate a process .B kill .RB [ \-s .IR signal | \fB\-p\fP ] +.RB [ \-q +.IR sigval ] .RN [ \-a ] .RB [ \-\- ] .IR pid ... @@ -84,6 +86,17 @@ Specify that .B kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals. +.TP +.BI \-q " sigval" +Use +.BR sigqueue (2) +rather than +.BR kill (2) +and the sigval argument is used to specify an integer to be sent with the +signal. If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using +the SA_SIGINFO flag to +.BR sigaction (2), +then it can obtain this data via the si_value field of the siginfo_t structure. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR bash (1), .BR tcsh (1), |