[PATCH v4 1/1] man/man2/kill.2: Wording issue in kill(2) with sig=0
From: Amit Pinhas <hidden>
Date: 2025-02-12 20:56:23
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
The fix was found from the relevant man page itself, as it had a wording issue regarding the return value when sig=0. Reported-by: Amit Pinhas <redacted> Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amit Pinhas <redacted> --- man/man2/kill.2 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/kill.2 b/man/man2/kill.2
index 96468622e..9d3a7411e 100644
--- a/man/man2/kill.2
+++ b/man/man2/kill.2@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION processes belong to the same session. (Historically, the rules were different; see HISTORY.) .SH RETURN VALUE -On success (at least one signal was sent), zero is returned. +On success, zero is returned. +If signals were sent to a process group, +success means that at least one signal was delivered. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set to indicate the error.
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