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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-02-13 15:55:10 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-02-14 15:59:09 +0100
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systemctl,loginctl,machinectl: use a shared helper for arg_signal
I seems frivolous to yet another two -util.[ch] files, but the helper should be in shared/ and it doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.
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(for a pretty version of the same, with indentation and line breaks) or <literal>off</literal> (to turn
off JSON output, the default).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id='signal'>
+ <term><option>-s</option></term>
+ <term><option>--signal=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When used with <command>kill</command>, choose which signal to send to selected processes. Must
+ be one of the well-known signal specifiers such as <constant>SIGTERM</constant>,
+ <constant>SIGINT</constant> or <constant>SIGSTOP</constant>. If omitted, defaults to
+ <option>SIGTERM</option>.</para>
+
+ <para>The special value <literal>help</literal> will list the known values and the program will exit
+ immediately.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>