Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:10:34 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill(2) man page: ESRCH Message-ID: <20120315121034.GS75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20120315120720.GN27469@hoeg.nl> References: <20120314234348.GL27469@hoeg.nl> <20120315093323.GL75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120315114727.GM27469@hoeg.nl> <20120315115657.GQ75778@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120315120720.GN27469@hoeg.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:07:20PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > 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 > =================================================================== > --- 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 And this is fine. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9h3DoACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4iqwgCg1vCVYugcNLwxMNwCjXPfqt+Z 3q8AoOzevgTRvKdu7XFXs0inFGBzgfQR =qMTe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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