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authordelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2009-12-25 10:01:35 +0000
committerdelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2009-12-25 10:01:35 +0000
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Document the difference between FreeBSD and traditional System V killall
commands. MFC after: 1 month
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diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
index 632c066..a6a56c4 100644
--- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
+++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 27, 2009
+.Dd December 25, 2009
.Os
.Dt KILLALL 1
.Sh NAME
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@ command appeared in
It has been modeled after the
.Nm
command as available on other platforms.
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+This
+.Fx
+implementation of
+.Nm
+have completely different semantics as compared to the traditional
+.Ux
+System V behavior of
+.Nm ,
+which will kill all processes that the current user is able to
+kill, and is intended to be used by the system shutdown process only.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
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