cannot be caught, and so does not give the target process the opportunity
to perform any clean-up before terminating.
.PP
-Most modern shells have a builtin kill command, with a usage rather similar to
+Most modern shells have a builtin
+.B kill
+command, with a usage rather similar to
that of the command described here. The
.BR \-\-all ,
.BR \-\-pid ", and"
.I pid
Each
.I pid
-can be one of four things:
+can be expressed in one of the following ways:
.RS
.TP
.I n
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR [\fInumber\fR]
Print a list of signal names, or convert the given signal number to a name.
The signals can be found in
-.I /usr/\:include/\:linux/\:signal.h
+.IR /usr/\:include/\:linux/\:signal.h .
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-table\fR
Similar to \fB\-l\fR, but it will print signal names and their corresponding
signals.
.TP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR
-Print PID(s) that will be signaled with kill along with the signal.
+Print PID(s) that will be signaled with
+.B kill
+along with the signal.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queue\fR \fIvalue\fR
-Use
+Send the signal using
.BR sigqueue (3)
rather than
.BR kill (2).
before sending follow-up
.I signal
to process.
-This feature is implemented by PID file-descriptor and guaranties that
+This feature is implemented by PID file-descriptor and guarantees that
follow-up signals are sent to the same process or not sent if the process no
more exist. Note that the operating system may re-use PIDs and implement the
same feature in a shell by kill and sleep commands sequence may introduce a
in
.BR clone (2).
.P
-Various shells have provide an internal kill implementation that is
+Various shells provide a builtin
+.B kill
+command that is
preferred in relation to the
.BR kill (1)
-executable described by this manual. Easiest way to ensure one is executing
-the executable is to use full path when calling the command, for example:
+executable described by this manual.
+The easiest way to ensure one is executing the command described in this page
+is to use the full path when calling the command, for example:
.B "/bin/kill \-\-version"
.SH AUTHORS
.MT svalente@mit.edu