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diff --git a/man2/tkill.2 b/man2/tkill.2 index eb586264..968c39c4 100644 --- a/man2/tkill.2 +++ b/man2/tkill.2 @@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ in the thread group .IR tgid . (By contrast, .BR kill (2) -can only be used to send a signal to a process (i.e., thread group) +can be used to send a signal only to a process (i.e., thread group) as a whole, and the signal will be delivered to an arbitrary thread within that process.) .BR tkill () is an obsolete predecessor to .BR tgkill (). -It only allows the target thread ID to be specified, +It allows only the target thread ID to be specified, which may result in the wrong thread being signaled if a thread terminates and its thread ID is recycled. Avoid using this system call. |