man-pages/man-pages-2.39-tgkill.patch
Ivana Varekova 684baa8854 - remove old/wrong patches
- fix tgkill/tkill man pages inconsistency
2006-12-08 12:08:28 +00:00

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--- man-pages-2.39/man2/tkill.2.pom 2006-08-03 15:57:17.000000000 +0200
+++ man-pages-2.39/man2/tkill.2 2006-12-08 11:36:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.TH TKILL 2 "2004-05-31" "Linux 2.6.6" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-tkill, tgkill \- send a signal to a single process
+tkill \- send a signal to a single process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@
.sp
.B int tkill(int tid, int sig);
.sp
-.B "_syscall3(int, tgkill, int, tgid, int, tid, int, sig)"
- /* Using \fBsyscall\fP(2) may be preferable; see \fBintro\fP(2) */
-.sp
-.B int tgkill(int tgid, int tid, int sig);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \fBtkill\fP() system call is analogous to
@@ -54,11 +50,6 @@
With \fBtkill\fP(), however, one can address each process
by its unique TID.
.PP
-The \fBtgkill\fP() call improves on \fBtkill\fP() by allowing the caller to
-specify the thread group ID of the thread to be signalled, protecting
-against TID reuse. If the tgid is specified as \-1, \fBtgkill\fP() degenerates
-into \fBtkill\fP().
-.PP
These are the raw system call interfaces, meant for internal
thread library use.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
@@ -76,11 +67,11 @@
.B ESRCH
No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-\fBtkill\fP() and \fBtgkill\fP() are Linux specific and should not be used
+\fBtkill\fP() is Linux specific and should not be used
in programs that are intended to be portable.
.SH VERSIONS
\fBtkill\fP() is supported since Linux 2.4.19 / 2.5.4.
-\fBtgkill\fP() was added in Linux 2.5.75.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gettid (2),
-.BR kill (2)
+.BR kill (2),
+.BR tgkill (2)