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.\" 2004-05-31, added tgkill, ahu, aeb
.\" 2008-01-15 mtk -- rewrote DESCRIPTION
.\"
-.TH tkill 2 2022-12-04 "Linux man-pages 6.03"
+.TH tkill 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
.SH NAME
tkill, tgkill \- send a signal to a thread
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -107,30 +107,22 @@ For the required permissions, see
.TP
.B ESRCH
No process with the specified thread ID (and thread group ID) exists.
-.SH VERSIONS
-.BR tkill ()
-is supported since Linux 2.4.19 / 2.5.4.
-.BR tgkill ()
-was added in Linux 2.5.75.
-.PP
-Library support for
-.BR tgkill ()
-was added in glibc 2.30.
.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
+.TP
.BR tkill ()
-and
+Linux 2.4.19 / 2.5.4.
+.TP
.BR tgkill ()
-are Linux-specific and should not be used
-in programs that are intended to be portable.
+Linux 2.5.75,
+glibc 2.30.
.SH NOTES
See the description of
.B CLONE_THREAD
in
.BR clone (2)
for an explanation of thread groups.
-.PP
-Before glibc 2.30, there was also no wrapper function for
-.BR tgkill ().
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR clone (2),
.BR gettid (2),