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Date:      Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:20:03 GMT
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/40282: [patch] kill(1) has bad error checking for command line parameters
Message-ID:  <200911081720.nA8HK3FH024299@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/40282; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, oleg@reis.zp.ua
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/40282: [patch] kill(1) has bad error checking for command
	line parameters
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:10:31 +0100

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 So I suggest this patch (EX_USAGE vs 1 can be changed separately).
 
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 Jilles Tjoelker
 
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 Index: bin/kill/kill.c
 ===================================================================
 --- bin/kill/kill.c	(revision 198703)
 +++ bin/kill/kill.c	(working copy)
 @@ -123,10 +123,9 @@
  
  	for (errors = 0; argc; argc--, argv++) {
  		pid = strtol(*argv, &ep, 10);
 -		if (!**argv || *ep) {
 -			warnx("illegal process id: %s", *argv);
 -			errors = 1;
 -		} else if (kill(pid, numsig) == -1) {
 +		if (!**argv || *ep)
 +			errx(1, "illegal process id: %s", *argv);
 +		else if (kill(pid, numsig) == -1) {
  			warn("%s", *argv);
  			errors = 1;
  		}
 
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