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Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:11:29 -0400
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>As long as the UID matches, you can send the signal.  I've done this many
>times from my test environment.  There is currently _no_ user on the
system
>able to send a signal to a process it doesn't normally have access to.
The
>"privileged user" concept for signals is not implemented.
 
My experience has been that kill() may only be sent from a parent to its
children. I believe this limitation is what you mean by sending a signal
"to a process it doesn't normally have access to". Is that correct? Will
this limitation be removed in a future release?
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