[BusyBox] [PATCH] kill error message

Stephane Billiart stephane.billiart at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 11:07:04 MDT 2005


The attached patch fixes the error message when trying to kill a
non-existing pid in ash

BEFORE
# kill 1234
kill: 1: m

AFTER
# kill 1234
kill: 3: kill 1234: No such process

-- 
Stéphane Billiart                      http://perso.wanadoo.fr/billiart/
-------------- next part --------------
--- shell/ash.c.orig	2005-08-14 18:56:54.000000000 +0200
+++ shell/ash.c	2005-08-14 18:56:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -6606,7 +6606,7 @@
 		} else
 			pid = number(*argv);
 		if (kill(pid, signo) != 0) {
-			sh_warnx("%m\n");
+			sh_warnx("kill %d: %s", pid, errmsg(errno, NULL));
 			i = 1;
 		}
 	} while (*++argv);


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