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| author | eadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-10-22 03:37:00 +0000 |
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| committer | eadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-10-22 03:37:00 +0000 |
| commit | 7f780401e5c89cc3329023acb7b24d9538e90ed4 (patch) | |
| tree | 48e39ec389d81c9066712a2e3bf46936f9c8f2bd /lib/libc/compat-43 | |
| parent | f38062a582d2eabb7770115f0c26ca665e612f56 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-7f780401e5c89cc3329023acb7b24d9538e90ed4.zip FreeBSD-src-7f780401e5c89cc3329023acb7b24d9538e90ed4.tar.gz | |
Update the kill(2) and killpg(2) man pages to the modern permission
checks. Also indicate killpg(2) is POSIX compliant.
Reviewed by: jilles
Reviewed by: wblock
Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/compat-43')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.2 b/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.2 index b23b773..a1d52a4 100644 --- a/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.2 +++ b/lib/libc/compat-43/killpg.2 @@ -58,11 +58,9 @@ is 0, .Fn killpg sends the signal to the sending process's process group. .Pp -The sending process and members of the process group must -have the same effective user ID, or -the sender must be the super-user. -As a single special case the continue signal SIGCONT may be sent -to any process with the same session ID as the caller. +The sending process must be able to +.Fn kill +at least one process in the receiving process group. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std killpg .Sh ERRORS @@ -80,9 +78,8 @@ is not a valid signal number. No process can be found in the process group specified by .Fa pgrp . .It Bq Er EPERM -The sending process is not the super-user and one or more -of the target processes has an effective user ID different from that -of the sending process. +.Fn kill +returns EPERM for all processes in the process group. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getpgrp 2 , |
