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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2006-12-19 10:35:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2006-12-19 10:35:54 +0000 |
| commit | 8b800f8fd193ff408ea92a9ea3eb6584a5ec0e9b (patch) | |
| tree | 7331ff3c251b74b4c1b4c40be907e44965e7d1de /Doc | |
| parent | 23054, part: error message for "kill -" with nothing after the - was confusing (diff) | |
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document OS may handle negative or zero PID in kill
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo index 51c1fd00c..e84084cd4 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo @@ -692,6 +692,9 @@ tt(SIGIO), assuming they correspond to the same signal number. tt(kill show if the alternative form corresponds to a signal number. For example, under Linux tt(kill -l IO) and tt(kill -l POLL) both output 29, hence tt(kill -IO) and tt(kill -POLL) have the same effect. + +Many systems will allow process IDs to be negative to kill a process +group or zero to kill the current process group. ) findex(let) item(tt(let) var(arg) ...)( |