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| author | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:34 +0100 |
| commit | fd6b7a7ffc50400704beb41d5a23af5f9edb1eed (patch) | |
| tree | 997c0ca2abc018369babd7da59bcd0afe492068e /misc-utils/kill.1 | |
| parent | Imported from util-linux-2.5 tarball. (diff) | |
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Imported from util-linux-2.7.1 tarball.
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| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/kill.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1 index aad5c23ba..f4fd6436d 100644 --- a/misc-utils/kill.1 +++ b/misc-utils/kill.1 @@ -23,7 +23,26 @@ Specify the list of processes that .B kill should signal. Each .I pid -can be a process id, or a process name. +can be one of four things. A +.I "process name" +in which case processes called that will be signaled. +.I n +where +.I n +is larger than 0. The process with pid +.I n +will be signaled. +.I -1 +in which case all processes from MAX_INT to 2 will be signaled, +as allowed by the issuing user. +.I -n +where +.I n +is larger than 1, in which case processes in process group +.I n +are signaled. IFF a negative argument is given the signal +.I must +be specified first, otherwise it will be taken as the signal to send. .TP .BR \-s Specify the signal to send. |