From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:17:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: kill: man page is missing a description of "kill -0"
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kill: man page is missing a description of "kill -0"

Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #429559
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index 1c703b14..9644564b 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ be caught.
 Most modern shells have a builtin kill function, with a usage rather similar
 to that of the command described here. The `-a' and `-p' options,
 and the possibility to specify pids by command name is a local extension.
+.PP
+If sig is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is still performed.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .IR pid ...