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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 19:41:39 +0000
From: "Robert Elz" <kre@netbsd.org>
Subject: CVS commit: src/bin/kill
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Module Name:	src
Committed By:	kre
Date:		Sun Aug 30 19:41:39 UTC 2020

Modified Files:
	src/bin/kill: kill.1

Log Message:
Note that negative pid args are permitted (indicating to send to the pgrp
abs(pid)) and indicate that -- is (strictly) needed if the first pid arg
(there often is only one) is negative - though this implementation works
without it if a signal to send has been explicitly given, but whereas
'kill 1234" is valid (send SIGTERM to pid 1234) "kill -1234" will generate
a usage error from the attempt to send signal 1234 to nothing, to send
SIGTERM to pgrp 1234 it needs to be "kill -- -1234" (or "kill -s term -1234").

While here do a couple of markup improvements, and allow for the
possibility that users might be running the builtin kill from some
shell other than csh or sh.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.31 -r1.32 src/bin/kill/kill.1

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.