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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-09-19 21:33:34 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-09-19 21:34:26 +0200
commite5f5563cba4a71e11274ec80012b5981c2ec3360 (patch)
treed1b2d11b9324c9508bdab2730fe2871ab4166312
parenta24fc082d0c803e2c7598d37667ad833fe36c174 (diff)
downloadman-pages-e5f5563cba4a71e11274ec80012b5981c2ec3360.tar.gz
kill.2: Minor clarification
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/kill.24
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/kill.2 b/man2/kill.2
index 465109acbe..8bc836b83c 100644
--- a/man2/kill.2
+++ b/man2/kill.2
@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ is set appropriately.
An invalid signal was specified.
.TP
.B EPERM
-The process does not have permission to send the signal
+The calling process does not have permission to send the signal
to any of the target processes.
.TP
.B ESRCH
-The process or process group does not exist.
+The target process or process group does not exist.
Note that an existing process might be a zombie,
a process that has terminated execution, but
has not yet been