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-rw-r--r--doc/pies.texi9
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9bc6609..7f70b38 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-10-23
+GNU Pies NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-10-24
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Sergey Poznyakoff
@@ -9,2 +9,8 @@ Please send Pies bug reports to <bug-pies@gnu.org> or
Version 1.2.90 (Git)
+
+* New flag siggroup.
+
+This flag instructs pies to send termination signal to the process
+group of the process being stopped.
+
diff --git a/doc/pies.texi b/doc/pies.texi
index a77e4cf..e97eb4d 100644
--- a/doc/pies.texi
+++ b/doc/pies.texi
@@ -684,2 +684,10 @@ When used with @samp{sockenv}, the @env{LOCALHOST} and
names, instead of IP addresses.
+
+@item siggroup
+This flag affects the befavior of @command{pies} when a stopped
+process fails to terminate within a predefined timeout
+(@pxref{shutdown-timeout}. Normally @command{pies} would send the
+@samp{SIGKILL} signal to such a process. If this flag is set,
+@command{pies} would send @samp{SIGKILL} to the process group of this
+process instead.
@end table
@@ -2022,2 +2030,3 @@ description of this statement.
+@anchor{shutdown-timeout}
@deffn {Config} shutdown-timeout @var{number};

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