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Renumber copyright clause 4 Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" @(#)kill.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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In v3 UNIX, the kill utility is documented in category 8, not 1. Add a note of it. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/kill.8 PR: 211786 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Obtained from: TUHS Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8105
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.Dt KILL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm kill
.Nd terminate or signal a process
.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl s Ar signal_name
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.Ar pid ...
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.Nm
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.Fl l
.Op Ar exit_status
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.Nm
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.Fl Ar signal_name
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.Ar pid ...
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.Nm
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.Fl Ar signal_number
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.Ar pid ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
.Nm
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utility sends a signal to the processes specified by the
.Ar pid
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operands.
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.Pp
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl s Ar signal_name
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the
default
.Dv TERM .
.It Fl l Op Ar exit_status
If no operand is given, list the signal names; otherwise, write
the signal name corresponding to
.Ar exit_status .
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.It Fl Ar signal_name
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A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the
default
.Dv TERM .
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.It Fl Ar signal_number
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A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead
of the default
.Dv TERM .
.El
.Pp
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The following PIDs have special meanings:
.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It -1
If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise broadcast
to all processes belonging to the user.
.El
.Pp
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Some of the more commonly used signals:
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.Pp
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.It 1
HUP (hang up)
.It 2
INT (interrupt)
.It 3
QUIT (quit)
.It 6
ABRT (abort)
.It 9
KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
.It 14
ALRM (alarm clock)
.It 15
TERM (software termination signal)
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.El
.Pp
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Some shells may provide a builtin
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.Nm
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command which is similar or identical to this utility.
Consult the
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.Xr builtin 1
manual page.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
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.Sh EXAMPLES
Terminate
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the processes with PIDs 142 and 157:
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.Pp
.Dl "kill 142 157"
.Pp
Send the hangup signal
.Pq Dv SIGHUP
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to the process with PID 507:
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.Pp
.Dl "kill -s HUP 507"
.Pp
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Terminate the process group with PGID 117:
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.Pp
.Dl "kill -- -117"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr builtin 1 ,
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.Xr csh 1 ,
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.Xr ps 1 ,
sh: Add kill builtin. This allows specifying a %job (which is equivalent to the corresponding process group). Additionally, it improves reliability of kill from sh in high-load situations and ensures "kill" finds the correct utility regardless of PATH, as required by POSIX (unless the undocumented %builtin mechanism is used). Side effect: fatal errors (any error other than kill(2) failure) now return exit status 2 instead of 1. (This is consistent with other sh builtins, but not in NetBSD.) Code size increases about 1K on i386. Obtained from: NetBSD
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.Xr kill 2 ,
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.Xr sigaction 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
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utility is expected to be
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.St -p1003.2
compatible.
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.Sh HISTORY
A
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.At v3
in section 8 of the manual.
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.Sh BUGS
A replacement for the command
.Dq Li kill 0
for
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.Xr csh 1
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users should be provided.
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