https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134971 --- Comment #2 from John Wiersba <jrw32982@xxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks, Michael! That does make it clearer! From: "bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jrw32982@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 6:24 AM Subject: [Bug 134971] Clarify kill(2) man-page for permission to "send" signal 0 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134971 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx Resolution|--- |CODE_FIX --- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hello John, I agree the page could be clearer. What I did was change the paragraph describing sig==0 to: If sig is 0, then no signal is sent, but existence and permission checks are still performed; this can be used to check for the existence of a process ID or process group ID that the caller is permitted to signal. I believe that makes the point clear, so I'll close this for now. Please reopen if you think there's still a problem. Thanks, Michael -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
