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Re: scm_kill using raise


From: Neil Jerram
Subject: Re: scm_kill using raise
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:58:39 +0000
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Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> When there's no kill() function (eg. on mingw), scm_kill will use
> raise() for the process itself (ie. pid==getpid()), but silently does
> nothing for any other pid.
>
> I think it should throw an error for that, so it doesn't look like the
> operation succeeded when it didn't.  ENOSYS sounds right to me (and
> exists on mingw).  An alternative would be ESRCH to claim the pid
> doesn't exist, but that's not really true.

That sounds good to me too, with ENOSYS.

Regards,
     Neil





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