Using angular brackets around each individual argument, indenting a
continuation line, not using a space before =, and the argument of
--queue is a number (an element of data), not a signal.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
misc-utils/kill.c | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.c b/misc-utils/kill.c
index 5d2f27d..f1c734c 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.c
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.c
@@ -303,17 +303,17 @@ static int arg_to_signum(char *arg, int maskbit)
static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
{
fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out);
- fprintf(out, _(" %s [options] <pid|name>...\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
+ fprintf(out, _(" %s [options] <pid>|<name>...\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out);
fputs(_(" -a, --all do not restrict the name-to-pid conversion to processes\n"
- " with the same uid as the present process\n"), out);
- fputs(_(" -s, --signal <sig> send specified signal\n"), out);
+ " with the same uid as the present process\n"), out);
+ fputs(_(" -s, --signal <signal> send this <signal> instead of SIGTERM\n"), out);
#ifdef HAVE_SIGQUEUE
- fputs(_(" -q, --queue <sig> use sigqueue(2) rather than kill(2)\n"), out);
+ fputs(_(" -q, --queue <number> use sigqueue(2), not kill(2), and pass <number> as data\n"), out);
#endif
fputs(_(" -p, --pid print pids without signaling them\n"), out);
- fputs(_(" -l, --list [=<signal>] list signal names, or convert one to a name\n"), out);
+ fputs(_(" -l, --list[=<signal>] list signal names, or convert one to a name\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -L, --table list signal names and numbers\n"), out);
fputs(_(" --verbose print pids that will be signaled\n"), out);
--
1.7.0.4
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