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diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index 77447dd12..94f238041 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -371,11 +371,36 @@ along with systemd; If not, see .
When used with kill, choose which
- processes to kill. Must be one of ,
- or to select
- whether to kill only the main process of the unit, the
- control process or all processes of the unit. If omitted,
- defaults to .
+ processes to send a signal to. Must be one of
+ , or
+ to select whether to kill only the main
+ process, the control process or all processes of the
+ unit. The main process of the unit is the one that defines
+ the life-time of it. A control process of a unit is one that
+ is invoked by the manager to induce state changes of it. For
+ example, all processes started due to the
+ ExecStartPre=,
+ ExecStop= or
+ ExecReload= settings of service units are
+ control processes. Note that there is only one control
+ process per unit at a time, as only one state change is
+ executed at a time. For services of type
+ Type=forking the initial process started
+ by the manager for ExecStart= is a
+ control process, while the process ultimately forked off by
+ that one is then considered the main process of the unit (if
+ it can be determined). This is different for service units
+ of other types, where the process forked off by the manager
+ for ExecStart= is always the main process
+ itself. A service unit consists of no or one main process,
+ no or one control process plus any number of additional
+ processes. Not all unit types manage processes of these
+ types however. For example for mount units control processes
+ are defined (which are the invocations of
+ /usr/bin/mount and
+ /usr/bin/umount), but no main process
+ is defined. If omitted, defaults to
+ .
@@ -664,9 +689,8 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service
Send a signal to one or more processes of the
unit. Use to select which
- process to kill. Use to select
- the kill mode and to select the
- signal to send.
+ process to kill. Use to select
+ the signal to send.