Created attachment 173602 [details] kill HISTORY It's not clear if the kill utility appeared in version 2 or 3 of UNIX. Earliest reference of kill in the TUHS archive is v3 AT&T UNIX. Unfortunately only the source code for the compiler is present for that release. The v2 archive is missing the manuals & only contains a some of the commands. In v3 UNIX, the kill utility is documented in category 8, not 1, attached patch adds this note to the HISTORY section.
kill command is not present in the draft V2 manual http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/1972_stuff/unix_2nd_edition_manual.pdf
A commit references this bug: Author: sevan Date: Sun Oct 2 23:13:47 UTC 2016 New revision: 306597 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306597 Log: In v3 UNIX, the kill utility is documented in category 8, not 1. Add a note of it. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/kill.8 PR: 211786 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Obtained from: TUHS Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8105 Changes: head/bin/kill/kill.1
A commit references this bug: Author: sevan Date: Fri Feb 3 11:17:44 UTC 2017 New revision: 313143 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313143 Log: In v3 UNIX, the kill utility is documented in category 8, not 1. Add a note of it. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/kill.8 PR: 211786 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Obtained from: TUHS Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8105 Changes: _U stable/11/ stable/11/bin/kill/kill.1
A commit references this bug: Author: sevan Date: Fri Feb 3 11:18:34 UTC 2017 New revision: 313144 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313144 Log: In v3 UNIX, the kill utility is documented in category 8, not 1. Add a note of it. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/kill.8 PR: 211786 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Obtained from: TUHS Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8105 Changes: _U stable/10/ stable/10/bin/kill/kill.1