diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/killpg.2 | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man2/killpg.2 b/man2/killpg.2 index bf63143c6d..1bc889aa1f 100644 --- a/man2/killpg.2 +++ b/man2/killpg.2 @@ -78,16 +78,8 @@ sends the signal to the calling process's process group. .I pgrp is less than or equal to 1, the behavior is undefined.) -For a process to have permission to send a signal -it must either be privileged (under Linux: have the -.B CAP_KILL -capability), or the real or effective -user ID of the sending process must equal the real or -saved set-user-ID of the target process. -In the case of -.B SIGCONT -it suffices when the sending and receiving -processes belong to the same session. +For the permissions required to send a signal to another process, see +.BR kill (2). .SH RETURN VALUE On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and @@ -102,6 +94,8 @@ is not a valid signal number. .B EPERM The process does not have permission to send the signal to any of the target processes. +For the required permissions, see +.BR kill (2). .TP .B ESRCH No process can be found in the process group specified by |