[systemd-devel] Documentation error for systemctl kill?

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Thu, 13.03.14 14:54, Alan Stern (stern at rowland.harvard.edu) wrote:
> 
> > In systemd 208 (the version currently distributed in Fedora 20), the 
> > man page for the systemctl(1) kill command says:
> > 
> > 	Send a signal to one or more processes of the unit. Use --kill-who=
> > 	to select which process to kill. Use --kill-mode= to select the
> > 	kill mode and --signal= to select the signal to send.

...

> > And what about the --kill-mode= option?  According to the output from
> > "systemctl --help", it doesn't exist.  Is it a relic from an earlier 
> > version of systemctl?
> 
> Yes it is. But no longer!
> 
> Thanks for reporting this! Much appreciated!

Thank _you_ for the detailed explanation and the documentation update.

Alan Stern