Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:43:48 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: kill(2) man page: ESRCH Message-ID: <20120314234348.GL27469@hoeg.nl>
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--2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Just a quick question. The kill(2) man page says: The kill() system call will fail and no signal will be sent if: [ESRCH] The process id was given as 0 but the sending proce= ss does not have a process group. My question is: is this possible? I thought all processes have a process group. POSIX also doesn't mention anything about this case specifically. Shall I zap this? --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPYS00AAoJEG5e2P40kaK7mHQP+wTOE12qlnZr0x1V8Goy6InX bJjTICO9MWe/vFlihQGC0ZYWkHyg2Z1bs5MRGQVvKwa3b7enu/HZIXJn9M62gRPN dCaMIyc9oFXA8k7fE15TGde8E6YEHU70ASAOiyEr/Idr9fPEFT3bwJ9wk5LsqYe1 Wu0yq1rCj9gWYvlH635YoxaDByS4o46gjV4ECouAJr/PWDDry8yunCKtlD8cbOeX boSTTZkIU+c3TjcS9/SxIVEV4aEgUWseEyLihxJumUis9yr3DdYUrILWN/Qz4lWT vO2dWaAXo6qTyjzGEtL+fbh/edRHiepkjM12Cv9FqYie7+QjpbypUctPe5NHRpvN D7lHuB/+U1y68RhFbFTGfxs+IYkZgNcdnl2N2PKMGgIKaeKC9EUq2Ma+8J6WNWvW hWwZP2tcYa+PJXqZJ9YFHexq13n53JBfwyEO3tv5rYdKpclmEJuySSXmwVSjv0u5 0tbGC1i0lj7u+JbSIRZLaG1P/t1nlJYcqEK7MNuBsMmD4b7oxLevFCkhnVXtQlFm /YIa3tXq5XHbTLvG6B/Gwrwr9La4ZsqkBkogOL9NOWMenFIwkaXPKBj9O1Qj9V8m lzJnesWafFYVIiLd5MWKn5D5imbExRH+d+p+14wqdx3GEsKuHxK8Q0m3RbgatPaV Q4tBMEG401YH98hL0LBd =rpA5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn--
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