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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Kill(2) Man page bug?  Vax and Sun
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Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 17:03:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  1 17:03:28 1986
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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