Re: kill(2)

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

> Here is an excerpt from HP's kill(2) man page (the one on linux
> is too sparse):

>    The real or effective user ID of the sending process must match the
>    real or saved user ID of the receiving process unless the effective
>    user ID of the sending process is a user who has appropriate
>    privileges.

> Can anybody tell me what's exactly `appropriate privileges'?

POSIX capabilities?  The Linux kernel source documents CAP_KILL as:

/* Overrides the restriction that the real or effective user ID of a
   process sending a signal must match the real or effective user ID
   of the process receiving the signal. */


You are much better off reading source than HP/UX kernel man pages.