On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:49:26AM +0000, Ed Schouten wrote: > Author: ed > Date: Thu Mar 15 11:49:26 2012 > New Revision: 233002 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/233002 > > Log: > Remove impossible error condition from the man page. > > On FreeBSD, all processes have a process group, so it is impossible for > kill(2) to fail this way. POSIX also doesn't mention this error > condition. > > Discussed on: arch@ > MFC after: 3 weeks > > Modified: > head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 > > Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 > ============================================================================== > --- head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 Thu Mar 15 11:06:37 2012 (r233001) > +++ head/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 Thu Mar 15 11:49:26 2012 (r233002) > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > .\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 > .\" $FreeBSD$ > .\" > -.Dd March 10, 2012 > +.Dd March 15, 2012 > .Dt KILL 2 > .Os > .Sh NAME > @@ -123,9 +123,6 @@ is not a valid signal number. > .It Bq Er ESRCH > No process can be found corresponding to that specified by > .Fa pid . > -.It Bq Er ESRCH > -The process id was given as 0 > -but the sending process does not have a process group. > .It Bq Er EPERM > The sending process is not the super-user and its effective > user id does not match the effective user-id of the receiving process. As I mentioned in the thread on list, removal of ESRCH from the list of errors is wrong.
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