Update the kill(2) and killpg(2) man pages to the modern permission

checks. Also indicate killpg(2) is POSIX compliant.

Reviewed by:	jilles
Reviewed by:	wblock
Approved by:	cperciva
MFC after:	3 days
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Eitan Adler 2012-10-22 03:37:00 +00:00
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@ -58,11 +58,9 @@ is 0,
.Fn killpg
sends the signal to the sending process's process group.
.Pp
The sending process and members of the process group must
have the same effective user ID, or
the sender must be the super-user.
As a single special case the continue signal SIGCONT may be sent
to any process with the same session ID as the caller.
The sending process must be able to
.Fn kill
at least one process in the receiving process group.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std killpg
.Sh ERRORS
@ -80,9 +78,8 @@ is not a valid signal number.
No process can be found in the process group specified by
.Fa pgrp .
.It Bq Er EPERM
The sending process is not the super-user and one or more
of the target processes has an effective user ID different from that
of the sending process.
.Fn kill
returns EPERM for all processes in the process group.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getpgrp 2 ,

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@ -64,11 +64,19 @@ This can be used to check the validity of
For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated
by
.Fa pid ,
the real or effective user ID of the receiving process must match
that of the sending process or the user must have appropriate privileges
(such as given by a set-user-ID program or the user is the super-user).
the user must be the super-user, or
the real or saved user ID of the receiving process must match
the real or effective user ID of the sending process.
A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent
to any process with the same session ID as the caller.
to any process with the same session ID as the sender.
In addition, if the
.Va security.bsd.conservative_signals
.Xr sysctl
is set to 1, the user is not a super-user, and
the receiver is set-uid, then
only job control and terminal control signals may
be sent (in particular, only SIGKILL, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGALRM,
SIGSTOP, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGTSTP, SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2).
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero :
The
@ -124,10 +132,9 @@ is not a valid signal number.
No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by
.Fa pid .
.It Bq Er EPERM
The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process.
When signaling a process group, this error is returned if any members
of the group could not be signaled.
The sending process does not have permission to send
.Va sig
to the receiving process.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getpgrp 2 ,