From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 12:08:00 +0000 (+0200) Subject: su: add note about SIGKILL to the man page X-Git-Tag: v2.33-rc1~80 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dc75983232f3b5fb548648e47b3517655dec43c;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git su: add note about SIGKILL to the man page Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/443 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/login-utils/su.1 b/login-utils/su.1 index d6c6153929..84ca104ef4 100644 --- a/login-utils/su.1 +++ b/login-utils/su.1 @@ -165,8 +165,9 @@ Upon receiving either or .BR SIGTERM , .B su -terminates its child and afterwards terminates itself with -the received signal. +terminates its child and afterwards terminates itself with the received signal. +The child is terminated by SIGTERM, after unsuccessful attempt and 2 seconds of +delay the child is killed by SIGKILL. .SH CONFIG FILES .B su reads the