Fixup to the kern_psignal manpage

r283105 misspelled kern_psignal as kernel_psignal in one occurrence, and
added trailing whitespace.

While here, change 'call' to the more standard 'function', and say why
the name was changed (taken from the commit message for r225617).
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Benjamin Kaduk 2015-05-19 15:43:20 +00:00
parent 352bc63d72
commit 6b0f878290
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=283114

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@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ function posts signal number
to the process represented by the process structure
.Fa p .
The
.Fn kernel_psignal
function used to be called
.Fn kern_psignal
function used to be called
.Fn psignal
but was renamed.
but was renamed in order to eliminate a name collision with the libc
function of that name and facilitate code reuse.
With a few exceptions noted below, the target process signal disposition is
updated and is marked as runnable, so further handling of the signal is done
in the context of the target process after a context switch.
@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ to the thread represented by the thread structure
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn psignal
call was renamed to
function was renamed to
.Fn kern_psignal
in
in
.Fx 9.0 .