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@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ has explicitly installed signal handlers.
This is done to assure the
system is not brought down accidentally.
.LP
-POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
+POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
to all processes that the current process may send signals to,
except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes.
Linux allows a process to signal itself, but on Linux the call
-\fIkill(-1,sig)\fP does not signal the current process.
+\fIkill(-\1,sig)\fP does not signal the current process.
.LP
POSIX 1003.1-2003 requires that if a process sends a signal to itself,
and that process does not have the signal blocked, and no other thread