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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:07:20 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kill(2) man page: ESRCH
Message-ID:  <20120315120720.GN27469@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20120315115657.GQ75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20120314234348.GL27469@hoeg.nl> <20120315093323.GL75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120315114727.GM27469@hoeg.nl> <20120315115657.GQ75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Kostik,

* Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@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
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
--- 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

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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