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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization .\" from The Open Group. .\" -.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/xkill/xkill.man,v 1.8 2001/12/14 20:02:06 dawes Exp $ +.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/xkill/xkill.man,v 1.9 2003/09/18 19:01:33 herrb Exp $ .\" .TH XKILL 1 __xorgversion__ .SH NAME @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ This option indicates that xkill should ignore the standard conventions for finding top-level client windows (which are typically nested inside a window manager window), and simply believe that you want to kill direct children of the root. +.SH CAVEATS +This command does not provide any warranty that the application whose +connection to the X server is closed will abort nicely, or even abort +at all. All this command does is to close the connection to the X +server. Many existing applications do indeed abort when their +connection to the X server is closed, but some can choose to +continue. .SH XDEFAULTS .TP 8 .B Button |