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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 96787c7a4339..000000000000 --- a/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,158 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors -.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software -.\" without specific prior written permission. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 -.\" -.Dd December 1, 2019 -.Dt KILL 2 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm kill -.Nd send signal to a process -.Sh LIBRARY -.Lb libc -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.In sys/types.h -.In signal.h -.Ft int -.Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig" -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The -.Fn kill -system call sends the signal given by -.Fa sig -to -.Fa pid , -a -process or a group of processes. -The -.Fa sig -argument -may be one of the signals specified in -.Xr sigaction 2 -or it may be 0, in which case -error checking is performed but no -signal is actually sent. -This can be used to check the validity of -.Fa pid . -.Pp -For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated -by -.Fa pid , -the user must be the super-user, or -the real or saved user ID of the receiving process must match -the real or effective user ID of the sending process. -A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent -to any process with the same session ID as the sender. -In addition, if the -.Va security.bsd.conservative_signals -.Xr sysctl 9 -is set to 1, the user is not a super-user, and -the receiver is set-uid, then -only job control and terminal control signals may -be sent (in particular, only SIGKILL, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGALRM, -SIGSTOP, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGTSTP, SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2). -.Bl -tag -width Ds -.It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero : -The -.Fa sig -signal -is sent to the process whose ID is equal to -.Fa pid . -.It \&If Fa pid No \&is zero : -The -.Fa sig -signal -is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal -to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the -process has permission; -this is a variant of -.Xr killpg 2 . -.It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 : -If the user has super-user privileges, -the signal is sent to all processes excluding -system processes -(with -.Dv P_SYSTEM -flag set), -process with ID 1 -(usually -.Xr init 8 ) , -and the process sending the signal. -If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes -which the caller has permissions to, excluding the process sending the signal. -No error is returned if any process could be signaled. -.El -.Pp -If the process number is negative but not -1, -the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID -is equal to the absolute value of the process number. -This is a variant of -.Xr killpg 2 . -.Sh RETURN VALUES -.Rv -std kill -.Sh ERRORS -The -.Fn kill -system call -will fail and no signal will be sent if: -.Bl -tag -width Er -.It Bq Er EINVAL -The -.Fa sig -argument -is not a valid signal number. -.It Bq Er ESRCH -No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by -.Fa pid . -.It Bq Er EPERM -The sending process does not have permission to send -.Va sig -to any receiving process. -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr getpgrp 2 , -.Xr getpid 2 , -.Xr killpg 2 , -.Xr sigaction 2 , -.Xr sigqueue 2 , -.Xr raise 3 , -.Xr init 8 -.Sh STANDARDS -The -.Fn kill -system call is expected to conform to -.St -p1003.1-90 . -.Sh HISTORY -A version of the -.Fn kill -function appeared in -.At v3 . -The signal number was added to the -.Fn kill -function in -.At v4 . |