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[chise/xemacs-chise.git.1] / src / process-unix.c

diff --git a/src/process-unix.c b/src/process-unix.c
index 0063a6e..d50028e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/process-unix.c
+++ b/src/process-unix.c
@@ -1541,8 +1541,17 @@ unix_kill_child_process (Lisp_Object proc, int signo,
 
   /* Finally send the signal. */
   if (EMACS_KILLPG (pgid, signo) == -1)
-    error ("kill (%ld, %ld) failed: %s",
-          (long) pgid, (long) signo, strerror (errno));
+    {
+      /* It's not an error if our victim is already dead.
+         And we can't rely on the result of killing a zombie, since
+         XPG 4.2 requires that killing a zombie fail with ESRCH,
+         while FIPS 151-2 requires that it succeeds! */
+#ifdef ESRCH
+      if (errno != ESRCH)
+#endif
+       error ("kill (%ld, %ld) failed: %s",
+              (long) pgid, (long) signo, strerror (errno));
+    }
 }
 
 /* Send signal SIGCODE to any process in the system given its PID.