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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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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:07:20PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Kostik,
>=20
> * 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.
>=20
> But wait. There are two ESRCH entries in the man page. I only removed
> the one that is invalid.
>=20
> If we want to improve the wording of the man page (which is unrelated to
> my change), we should commit something like:
>=20
> 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
And this is fine.

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