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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
.\" Modified 2004-06-24 by aeb
.\" Modified, 2004-11-30, after idea from emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr
.\"
-.TH kill 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH kill 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
kill \- send signal to a process
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <signal.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int kill(pid_t " pid ", int " sig );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR kill ():
.nf
_POSIX_C_SOURCE
@@ -48,25 +48,25 @@ The
.BR kill ()
system call
can be used to send any signal to any process group or process.
-.PP
+.P
If \fIpid\fP is positive, then signal \fIsig\fP is sent to the
process with the ID specified by \fIpid\fP.
-.PP
+.P
If \fIpid\fP equals 0, then \fIsig\fP is sent to every process in the
process group of the calling process.
-.PP
+.P
If \fIpid\fP equals \-1, then \fIsig\fP is sent to every process
for which the calling process has permission to send signals,
except for process 1 (\fIinit\fP), but see below.
-.PP
+.P
If \fIpid\fP is less than \-1, then \fIsig\fP is sent to every process
in the process group whose ID is \fI\-pid\fP.
-.PP
+.P
If \fIsig\fP is 0, then no signal is sent,
but existence and permission checks are still performed;
this can be used to check for the existence of a process ID or
process group ID that the caller is permitted to signal.
-.PP
+.P
For a process to have permission to send a signal,
it must either be privileged (under Linux: have the
.B CAP_KILL
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ process, are those for which
has explicitly installed signal handlers.
This is done to assure the
system is not brought down accidentally.
-.PP
+.P
POSIX.1 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
to all processes that the calling process may send signals to,
except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes.
Linux allows a process to signal itself, but on Linux the call
\fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP does not signal the calling process.
-.PP
+.P
POSIX.1 requires that if a process sends a signal to itself,
and the sending thread does not have the signal blocked,
and no other thread