kill(2) man page: ESRCH
Ed Schouten
ed at 80386.nl
Thu Mar 15 12:07:21 UTC 2012
Kostik,
* Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>, 20120315 12:56:
> No, this is wrong. ESRCH is the valid error return, just the description
> is bogus, and should be updated.
But wait. There are two ESRCH entries in the man page. I only removed
the one that is invalid.
If we want to improve the wording of the man page (which is unrelated to
my change), we should commit something like:
Index: kill.2
===================================================================
--- kill.2 (Revision 233002)
+++ kill.2 (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
argument
is not a valid signal number.
.It Bq Er ESRCH
-No process can be found corresponding to that specified by
+No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by
.Fa pid .
.It Bq Er EPERM
The sending process is not the super-user and its effective
--
Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
WWW: http://80386.nl/
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