From 0dc75983232f3b5fb548648e47b3517655dec43c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 14:08:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] su: add note about SIGKILL to the man page Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/443 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- login-utils/su.1 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.47.2