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* man: Use the correct macro for a font change of one argumentBjarni Ingi Gislason2018-05-231-5/+5
| | | | | | | | Use the correct macro (I, B) for the font change of one argument, not those that are used for alternating two fonts, like "BR", "IR", "RB", or "RI". Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
* docs: replace FTP by HTTPS in kernel.org URLsSébastien Helleu2016-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | The links to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/ are replaced by https://www.kernel.org/. Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* docs: kill(1): Wording fixMichael Kerrisk2016-12-091-1/+1
| | | | | | Fix a wording error introduced in one of my recent commits. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* docs: various pages: Use 'UID" and "GID", not "uid" and "gid" in man pagesMichael Kerrisk2016-12-091-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
* docs: various pages: Use "PID" not "pid" in man-pagesMichael Kerrisk2016-12-091-6/+6
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
* docs: various pages: Use "ID" not "id" in man pagesMichael Kerrisk2016-12-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | The correct abbreviation of identifier is is "ID" (as used in many pages), not "id" (as used in a few pages). Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
* docs: kill(1): Wording fixMichael Kerrisk2016-12-051-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* docs: kill(1): Formatting fixesMichael Kerrisk2016-12-051-2/+7
| | | | | | | Formatting fixes for constants and structure/field names, as per man-pages(7). Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* docs: kill(1): Rework notes on thread groupsMichael Kerrisk2016-12-051-18/+15Star
| | | | | | | | | | The points in the NOTES can be expressed more compactly (there is some redundancy in the two existing paragraphs). Also, add a reference to signal(7), since this provides much more detail on the topic. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* docs: kill(1): Add more detail on use of SIGTERM vs SIGKILLMichael Kerrisk2016-12-051-3/+11
| | | | | | | It's worth adding a recommendation here to use SIGTERM rather than SIGKILL, and explain why. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* docs: kill(1): Fix section reference for sigqueue(3) and add to SEE ALSOMichael Kerrisk2016-12-051-1/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
* docs: various pages: Use "system call" not "syscall"Michael Kerrisk2016-12-051-2/+2
| | | | | | A minor wording fix... Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
* Replace reference to sigvec(2) with sigaction(2)Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)2016-11-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The sigvec(3) (not sigvec(2)) page documents ancient BSD APIs. The right page to cross reference here is sigaction(2), which documents the modern POSIX APIs. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* Place SEE ALSO entries in orderMichael Kerrisk (man-pages)2016-11-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch does only the following: * Order SEE ALSO entries first by section name, then alphabetically within section * Adds one or two missing commas in SEE ALSO lists * Removes one or two periods that were (inconsistently) used at the end of SEE ALSO lists. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
* kill: remove pid command-name to option aliasSami Kerola2016-08-141-5/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | Removal was promised to happen in March 2016 and the time has come to get rid of this unexpected feature. Reference: c5b057b3422504a671ee588fa66574ae876521f1 Reviewed-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
* docs: Fix various typosSebastian Rasmussen2016-05-311-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@gmail.com>
* man pages: fix spacing between man page name & section numberMike Frysinger2016-05-201-1/+1
| | | | | | Most have standardized correctly, but fix a few latent ones. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* kill: Add verbose to man page.Raghavendra D Prabhu2015-07-031-0/+3
| | | | | kill adds a verbose option to print the pid(s) and the signal. It is added to man page here.
* docs: fix many wording and some formatting issues in the man page of killBenno Schulenberg2014-07-141-48/+52
| | | | | | Also, add the most-used form of '-signal' to the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
* kill: make kill-by-name more obvious in man pageKarel Zak2014-04-071-6/+6
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill: add copyrights, etc.Karel Zak2014-04-071-4/+11
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill: return 64 on partial successKarel Zak2014-04-071-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Return 64 (aka SOME_OK) when more than process specified and the operation success only for subset of the processes. # kill -s 0 firefox mutt xxx; echo $? kill: cannot find process "xxx" 64 We already use this concept for chcpu(8) or mount(8). Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill: tiny change in man pageKarel Zak2014-04-071-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill: deprecat invocation as 'pid' command nameSami Kerola2014-03-301-0/+5
| | | | | | | | 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>
* kill: support --list=<signal>Karel Zak2013-03-131-1/+2
| | | | | | The '=' is expected for optional arguments and required in procps version. Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill: add pretty printed list output (for compatibility with procps)Sami Kerola2013-03-131-0/+4
| | | | | | | | * add -L, --table References: http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/kill1-consolidation Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* docs: add long options and tidy up kill.1Sami Kerola2013-03-121-41/+45
| | | | Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
* kill: add note about threads to the man pageKarel Zak2013-01-151-0/+20
| | | | | Addresses: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846790 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* docs: uniformize the header and footer lines in man pagesBenno Schulenberg2011-08-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration" at the top center. Also improve here and there the one-line program description. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
* textual: tweak several manpages, mainly the blkid oneBenno Schulenberg2011-03-081-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
* man page syntax fixesVille Skyttä2011-03-071-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
* kill: add -q sigval to use sigqueue(2)Karel Zak2011-02-281-0/+13
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* rename util-linux-ng back to util-linuxKarel Zak2010-11-301-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* kill.1: formattingPeter Breitenlohner2009-08-171-4/+10
| | | | Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
* kill: man page is missing a description of "kill -0"Karel Zak2008-01-281-0/+2
| | | | | Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #429559 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* man pages: add "AVAILABILITY" sectionKarel Zak2007-07-031-0/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
* Imported from util-linux-2.11b tarball.Karel Zak2006-12-071-30/+49
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* Imported from util-linux-2.7.1 tarball.Karel Zak2006-12-071-1/+20
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* Imported from util-linux-2.2 tarball.Karel Zak2006-12-071-0/+49