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Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated within page.

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@ -125,17 +125,7 @@ has it unblocked or is waiting for it in
at least one
unblocked signal must be delivered to the sending thread before the
.BR kill ().
.SH BUGS
In 2.6 kernels up to and including 2.6.7,
there was a bug that meant that when sending signals to a process group,
.BR kill ()
failed with the error
.B EPERM
if the caller did have permission to send the signal to \fIany\fP (rather
than \fIall\fP) of the members of the process group.
Notwithstanding this error return, the signal was still delivered
to all of the processes for which the caller had permission to signal.
.SH "LINUX HISTORY"
.SH "LINUX NOTES"
Across different kernel versions, Linux has enforced different rules
for the permissions required for an unprivileged process
to send a signal to another process.
@ -149,6 +139,16 @@ effective user ID of the sender matched either the real or effective
user ID of the receiver.
The current rules, which conform to POSIX.1-2001, were adopted
in kernel 1.3.78.
.SH BUGS
In 2.6 kernels up to and including 2.6.7,
there was a bug that meant that when sending signals to a process group,
.BR kill ()
failed with the error
.B EPERM
if the caller did have permission to send the signal to \fIany\fP (rather
than \fIall\fP) of the members of the process group.
Notwithstanding this error return, the signal was still delivered
to all of the processes for which the caller had permission to signal.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001
.SH "SEE ALSO"