(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / kill.2

diff --git a/original/man2/kill.2 b/original/man2/kill.2
index b843366..3e02369 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/kill.2
+++ b/original/man2/kill.2
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2004-06-24 by aeb
 .\" Modified, 2004-11-30, after idea from emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr
 .\"
-.TH KILL 2 2013-02-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH KILL 2 2013-09-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 kill \- send signal to a process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ In the case of
 .B SIGCONT
 it suffices when the sending and receiving
 processes belong to the same session.
+(Historically, the rules were different; see NOTES.)
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success (at least one signal was sent), zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
@@ -150,11 +151,11 @@ to send a signal to another process.
 .\" In the 0.* kernels things chopped and changed quite
 .\" a bit - MTK, 24 Jul 02
 In kernels 1.0 to 1.2.2, a signal could be sent if the
-effective user ID of the sender matched that of the receiver,
-or the real user ID of the sender matched that of the receiver.
+effective user ID of the sender matched effective user ID of the target,
+or the real user ID of the sender matched the real user ID of the target.
 From kernel 1.2.3 until 1.3.77, a signal could be sent if the
 effective user ID of the sender matched either the real or effective
-user ID of the receiver.
+user ID of the target.
 The current rules, which conform to POSIX.1-2001, were adopted
 in kernel 1.3.78.
 .SH BUGS
@@ -177,3 +178,11 @@ to all of the processes for which the caller had permission to signal.
 .BR capabilities (7),
 .BR credentials (7),
 .BR signal (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.