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| author | Sami Kerola | 2014-03-09 18:45:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Sami Kerola | 2014-03-30 22:32:36 +0200 |
| commit | c5b057b3422504a671ee588fa66574ae876521f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 78e608f14ddcea2b591bc01d159d745d69942cdc /misc-utils/kill.1 | |
| parent | kill: make usage() not to return (diff) | |
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kill: deprecat invocation as 'pid' command name
Enabling options by renaming command is both unexpected and undocumented.
This magic is now deprecated and with remark of removal of this
functionality in future.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/kill.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/kill.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1 index 50f5cd206..610f8fb72 100644 --- a/misc-utils/kill.1 +++ b/misc-utils/kill.1 @@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ Specify that .B kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals. +.IP +The \-\-pid option functionality is enabled when the command +copied or linked to name +.BR pid . +This functionality is deprecated, and will not be removed in March 2016. .TP \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue\fR \fIsigval\fR Use |