kill(2) man page: ESRCH

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:07:20PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> 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
And this is fine.
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