Kill(2) Man page bug? Vax and Sun
Peter Honeyman
honey at down.FUN
Wed Apr 2 08:03:28 AEST 1986
this is degenerating into a game of one-ups-manual-ship, but here's the
v5 language (ca. 1973) for kill(2):
SYNOPSIS
sys kill; sig
kill(pid, sig)
DESCRIPTION
Kill sends the signal sig to the process specified by the
process number in r0. See signal(2) for a list of signals.
The sending and receiving processes must have the same
controlling typewriter, otherwise this call is restricted to
the super-user.
BUGS
Equality between the controlling typewriters of the sending and
receiving process is neither a necessary nor sufficient
condition for allowing the sending of a signal. The correct
condition is equality of user IDs.
-- peter
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